The collection · DiffusionLab

A griffin guarding a text block by a lectern in choir in late 11th century, lapis lazuli and vermilion flats, oak gall ink on ruled vellum. Work 10235.

Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.

An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted. Work 10216.

Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.

The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.

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.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 10126.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 10078.

Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar. Work 10024.

A crossbill working at a pine cone above a distant estuary, the era of the licensed face. Work 9884.

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.

An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted. Work 9776.

Feather edges left as bare paper of a swallow gathering mud with the crest raised, 1785. Work 9754.

A robin on a snowy fence post, engraved initial letter with foliage, she knew all the answers, letterpress on a rag paper sheet. Work 9727.

1774, a hemstitched Tree of Life in polychrome crewel with the name spelled short of room, rococo stitch in tiny blocks. Work 9636.

Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench. Work 9547.

A nightjar crouched along a branch along the border of a lancet in around 1200, steel engraving in cold black. Work 9525.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

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.

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

A griffin guarding a text block and a pelican piercing its own breast below a miniature in a frame, late 8th century, bestiary plate with a written gloss. Work 9261.

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.

1731: plate corrected after the first issue of a robin standing on a spade handle on a folio sheet held flat. Work 9154.

A crowing rooster on a fence rail on a motel matchbook with a neon sign in 1953, Japanese matchbox label art, blind emboss with no ink at all. Work 9031.

A bell jar over a stuffed bird within a fitted case lined with baize, the ladder was moved twice a year. Work 8989.

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 natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8951.

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.