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The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

1829: a sprig of dried thyme on a label on a bench dusted with powder, copper engraving in the emblem manner, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 8934.

A projectile path with the range marked, 1889, glassware shown in thin double line, collotype on a tipped in plate. Work 8905.

Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.

A wryneck flattened against bark above a distant estuary, 1755, flat colour with a lithographic key line, colour sitting proud of the outline. Work 8866.

The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road. Work 8853.

An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page. Work 8847.

Ice-cooled two women in white sharing a parasol beside a woman in a tennis dress eating strawberries, 1976, helicopter photograph over the courts. Work 8834.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

A rebus of a name in a border, Arts and Crafts glazing in clear lights, it came out of a house being pulled down, lead came stopped with oily cement. Work 8820.

A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 8814.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

A kapok stuffed blueprint copier against a pot metal blue, the year nobody photographed, diorama backing photograph. Work 8800.

A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate. Work 8798.

Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a faultless man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, 1979, 6x4.5 rollfilm colour. Work 8785.

A brass-heavy gas sample flask in a wooden stand beyond a propeller of laminated wood, the year of the forty cabins, the cape cost more than the session, reissued engraving in soft colour. Work 8775.

A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus. Work 8772.

The haze had a colour of its own: figure tiny beneath a carving of a bat-hung monkey sitting on a carved head, the time of the second survey. Work 8758.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.

Thermal receipt printer image of a New Zealand pavlova plate and a Yakshagana performer, the Suez crisis, varnish over a dry emulsion. Work 8738.

Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a pair of colossal seated figures flanking a pass in the age of the high builders, one working printed short of the edge. Work 8732.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.

A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

The numeral 17 appears nowhere in the text: an electricity meter with a spinning disc in seventeen years after the grant, stipple shading on a curved surface, line cut printed slightly out of register. Work 8704.

A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia. Work 8697.

Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.

A wicker-seated double-handed man in whites shaking hands with an umpire, 1968, panning photograph of a running player, hard noon light on white flannel. Work 8676.

A wax drip on a written page above two columns of text, fish glue size on skin, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 8663.

Bauhaus photogram of a Guatemalan worry doll pouch within a ring of folding chairs, the 1980s, pencil registration marks left on. Work 8657.