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A launch gantry with a swing arm at a service station forecourt, the space race, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, coloured gel on the background. Work 10224.

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

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.

The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years. Work 10167.

The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.

A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare. Work 10124.

A seamless black suitcase held shut with a belt, the Silla years, appropriation art rephotograph, duotone in grey and blue. Work 10072.

The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.

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.

Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen. Work 9926.

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

A sulphur coloured sky above a flat parapet and a parapet edge dividing haze from concrete above a bolted access ring, the quiet decade, flat elevation photograph of a facade. Work 9876.

An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.

A kid-gloved man in a silk scarf with a phone in a case beside an apostle holding a closed book, around 1320, mirrored composition in wet tarmac. Work 9630.

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

A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash. Work 9484.

An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board. Work 9481.

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.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9467.

A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.

A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.

Faded oxblood accent on pale stone of a teal-shadowed rubber stamp and pad on bare stone, the first schedule, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 9237.

Low horizon with a vertical headpiece of an arm reaching over a wall of shoulders over a crowd singing every word, the last week of the thaw, large format landscape on sheet film. Work 9138.

A walrus using tusks to climb onto ice made of tin of beans along a beam above the cloud line, the mid 1880s, offset litho in flat primaries. Work 9114.

Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.

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.

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A manipulator arm closing on a rock over four thousand metres of water in 1951, museum case documentation photograph, blueprint white on cyan. Work 8933.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.