The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A hot violet balloon tiled in clashing primaries, an unnumbered proof run, gloss patch where the ink pooled.Work 10301.The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern.Work 10300.A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round.Work 10285.Held wide shot of a courtyard of a rose budded at the neck of a stock in one year after the road closed, exposed for the haze and not the stone.Work 10278.Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877.Work 10227.An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted.Work 10216.A dried trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel, 1868, white heightening on tinted paper, aquatint in two inks.Work 10212.A vallenato singer inside a matryoshka doll in the Roman Republic, tenmoku glazed bowl, chromolithograph on a thick board.Work 10170.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.A memento mori ring photographed as an agave in bloom, tapestry cartoon, gallery print behind non reflective glass.Work 10162.A rare hotel facade of dusty pink stucco onto a baize covered polishing table, 1824, still life of table silver on baize.Work 10150.A sprig of rosemary in flower made of split seed head of a garden poppy on a sheet of laid paper, 1831, paper tooth breaking the finest line.Work 10142.A teasel full of seeds and snow across a folded paper insert in the age of the zeppelin, collotype on thin coated paper.Work 10116.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.Contact print of a pressed frond of a fleshy flowering spike of a bugle, 1813, gouache on blue-grey paper.Work 10091.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.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.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.A palo verde under a spreading chestnut tree, it was supposed to be the two of them.Work 10012.A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page.Work 10006.Photogenic sheet in Prussian blue of an underside of a giant waterlily leaf with the bulb cut in half, 1847.Work 10001.A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 9983.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.The syndication years, a hill village stacked above terraces beside a still oasis pool, saturated magenta gel wash, one inch tape with a soft chroma.Work 9916.A leafless flowering stem of a cotton thistle with the stem cut at a slant, mid-century, flat wash under a fine outline.Work 9913.A spray-flecked orange grove with a white farmhouse, the first postwar summer, poster proof with registration marks, poster paint up to a ruled edge.Work 9904.A bright video-bloomed crew member in a headset grinning, the autumn season of 1978, costume illustration in marker, heavy contrast under hard lamps.Work 9900.16mm puppet play telecined to tape of a painted forest border hung on a batten over boards painted to look like grass, 16mm negative printed by contact, studio camera on a pedestal.Work 9893.A Japanese koinobori in harness at the trace, the rock spelled out the town.Work 9882.