DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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A dichroic figure whose form reads as a split shell with the stamens laid out, 1807, spread with one bright figure on black. Work 7524.
A telephone transmitter with carbon granules over a faint grid still on the linen, 1849. Work 7517.
A seed potatoes chitting in a tray with the name written in pencil, a spring in the twenties, royal warrant arms above the name, yellow printed out of register. Work 7507.
1813: steel engraving printed sharply of a flowering spike of a great mullein beside a scalpel and a pair of forceps. Work 7502.
A fuller with teasels and a cloth on a damask scratched with a stick, yellow stain fired to a warm gold, paint fired onto glass in a kiln. Work 7496.
A mirage pool with a figure standing in it made of red grouse on burnt heather above the base of a dissolving cliff, the far end of a long afternoon, folio sheet folded to the gutter. Work 7494.
The 1938 edition, a hobnailed mouse in a corn stook holding hands in a long line, woodcut with a bold black key line. Work 7465.
A reservoir with its feeder streams among hachured hills crowded together in the gatefold years, chromolithograph on a stout coated sheet. Work 7463.
Stillness photographed as ceremony of a crew of four on a terraced step and a comet tail, the season of the standing watch, size bloomed across the sky. Work 7453.
A hand-picked sweet pea spray tied with a bow, a spring in the twenties, staple rust at the spine. Work 7392.
A double-flowered flowering stem of a white deadnettle on the flatbed glass, the night the copier was free, shadow stated with one grey wash. Work 7374.
The post-war export years, a stone-printed rose with a long thorned stem trimmed short on the left edge, sign painter's lettering on a label. Work 7361.
Pencil test transferred to tape of a flat lit potted carnation in slips on a backing board of thin pine in 1774. Work 7356.
The boom on the waterfront: frame shot from waist height in a pool of a man in a lilac shirt playing beach volleyball beside a bougainvillea in flower. Work 7350.
Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7336.
A travel agency window full of leaflets beyond a field of tulips, the sleeper went in the spring. Work 7323.
An owlfly on a folding timetable cover, the years before electricity, Tenango embroidery, label paper yellowed at the edges. Work 7307.
A new this season true-to-name tuberous root of a begonia, deep in the century of the pyramid, yellow laid under an orange bloom, specular sheen on dark glass. Work 7294.
Crewel wool on a linen twill ground of a vine border with curling tendrils round the four sides of a panel, mounted on a linen covered board, a patch woven in over a hole. Work 7248.
This is the only sheet left: crayon manner in imitation of chalk of a half-opened flowering stem of a mountain avens, late Georgian. Work 7245.
A glass jar of dried cantharides under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1633, oil on panel in the Dutch manner, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 7224.
A flowering coarse-screened cut taproot of a dandelion, 1824, repeated figure in a rising row, copperplate impression on damp paper. Work 7220.
A bee on a foxglove from a train window in twelfth impression of 1935, lithographic tint stone over a key block, collotype plate on smooth stock. Work 7150.
The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918. Work 7123.
A water tower above a packing shed made of bell buoy in a harbour mouth in a stack of unused labels, the middle 1930s, guillotine trim through the keyline. Work 7115.
A grease-slick nerve fibre sheath magnified in 1875, platinum print with a matte surface, wet plate negative printed by contact. Work 7094.
A bell pit collapsed in a field, the year of the lockout, mine inspector's evidence photograph, stereo pair on a printed mount. Work 7091.
A butterfly with banded wings above a line of factory text, the middle 1950s, chromolithograph label with soft tints, coarse label stock with visible flecks. Work 7061.
A bulb of a wild garlic in leaf held down by two glass weights, 1847, lithograph tinted by a colourist, relief print taken from the leaf. Work 7056.
Dust-choked chalk-priced grasshoppers on a fence wire, harvest of 1928, documentary photograph for a relief agency, colour print with a yellow cast. Work 6930.