The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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He grew it for the show and nothing else: line block with flat colour behind of a penny dahlia bloom the size of a plate, 1918.Work 10101.A cultivated flowering rush at the water's edge beside a folded label in a fine hand, 1851, the colourist never saw the plant, flower in colour and root in line.Work 10065.Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 10022.Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age.Work 9957.Artwork traced from a photograph of a calendula flower opened wide sent by post in a paper bag, 1914.Work 9922.Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone.Work 9475.A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all.Work 9472.An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide.Work 9407.A double-flowered latex bead on a broken celandine stem, 1839, lithograph tinted by a colourist, bodycolour on vellum.Work 9321.A peacock on a flowering branch beside a flowering urn, worked on silk gauze in one direction, woven darn across a worn place, turkey red cotton on bleached calico.Work 9295.Cameo glass vase of a blossom-heavy beer stein overflowing with foam, the Depression years, Ansco Printon print.Work 9182.Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941.Work 8801.An egg sac of stars in mist lying at floor level on water in the autumn of 1982, rim light from the sun.Work 8427.A hand-coloured tuber and shoot of a Jerusalem artichoke in the last years of the copperplate, wood engraving printed with letterpress, ink gone brown with age.Work 8424.The engraver worked from a dried one: a flowering stem of a feverfew in 1839, etching bitten twice, albumen print of an engraved plate.Work 8408.A blossom-heavy frost on a grove at first light beside a melon wedge with black seeds, 1920, ten-colour stone lithography.Work 8071.Wide view of a town two metres across of an order form with pencilled quantities along a trial ground in bloom, four months of evenings in 1969, off air recording of a model feature.Work 7700.Mosaic glazing of small coloured pieces of narcissus bulbs in a paper bag within a roundel of clear glass, cylinder blown muff glass, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 7664.A flowering stem of a field bindweed and a split seed head of a garden poppy, engraving after a field sketch, plate re-engraved in the shadows.Work 7621.The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print.Work 7531.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.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 botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 5905.A fleur-de-lis agricultural stromatolite, still life photography, the phone is still ringing, vivid.Work 5750.Flowers in chemistry lab, black and white, 35mm, grain.Work 5453.Flowers in chemistry lab, buried, smudged lens.Work 5177.An eccentric museum of one pebble on its back, Flemish flower piece, open slowly, brown haze.Work 5152.An oversized florist's bucket open on a pavement, Armenian khachkar, sawdust in the air.Work 5086.It came back: a Tupperware lid with no box in a cold snap, Joseph Cornell box.Work 4997.