The collection

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Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.
A fledged moorhen stepping on a lily pad with the bill open in song, the age of the folio, wood engraving in the vignette manner. Work 10165.
An oil-slick felt duck with webbed cardboard feet inside a room hung in black wool, the early 2000s, school programme insert film. Work 9813.
A long-tailed duck in winter, 1804, brush and ink in the Japanese manner, silverfish grazing at one corner. Work 9788.
A nightjar crouched along a branch along the border of a lancet in around 1200, steel engraving in cold black. Work 9525.
A cliff-nesting ground-nesting bittern half hidden in the reeds, the great subscription years, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone, plate offset onto the facing leaf. Work 9478.
A flamingo chick in grey fluff at anchor off a green headland, hand coloured print, cobalt blue sunk into the glaze. Work 9232.
Barring laid in with a single stroke of a pintail drake stretching a wing on a stand turned from pear wood, pastel fixed with too much spray, tissue guard stuck to the colour. Work 9221.
1827, a hawfinch with a cherry stone on a shingle spit, outline printing dry in the thin lines, lithograph with the stone grain showing. Work 8964.
A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.
A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag. Work 8699.
A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments. Work 8567.
A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow. Work 8560.
A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.
The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.
Shibori dyed cloth of a brolga in 1666, Kodak T-Max 100. Work 8264.
Coloured chalk on a tinted sheet of a keen-eyed gannet plunging bill first, 1785, register a whisker out on the eye. Work 8257.
A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux. Work 8211.
A multiplied rubber duck in four colourways in an edition nobody counted, print on wallpaper lining paper, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8178.
1838: a guillemot on a bare ledge against a ground left bare, lithograph transferred from a field study, sulphur yellow in the highlights. Work 8087.
The Wars of Religion years, a municipally funded show king pigeon in a pork pie hat worn at an angle, warm stone against cool shadow. Work 7939.
The second week of a residency, a barred pheasant cock crowing with wings up with smoke up to the knees, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone. Work 7583.
A hornbill on a bare branch, hallucinatory jungle treatment, the rain came down in one colour, silver retained print. Work 7253.
Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a dunlin flock turning as one in 1838, half-tone on coated paper. Work 7251.
A greenshank at the edge of a pool between two dead pine trunks in 1785, counterproof taken from a damp print. Work 7241.
The week the shells arrived, a glassy figure with the hands hidden in shell finished in six coats of lacquer, study of texture at three distances. Work 7176.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 7129.
Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920. Work 7048.
Poster paint colour under photofloods of a clay penguin dipped in white and a clay chef under a tall paper hat, one long afternoon in 1969, flying spot telecine transfer. Work 7020.