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