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A referenced leyden jar with inner and outer foil between two facing pages of text, 1883, the plate was numbered out of order, two colour printing with red for the rays. Work 10249.
Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth. Work 10067.
A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end. Work 9797.
A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art. Work 9740.
A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark. Work 9476.
A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 9245.
A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back. Work 9120.
Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground. Work 8954.
A demonstrated colour keyed cartesian diver in a stoppered jar, 1874, keyline plate with flat colour behind, plate with the guard sheet missing. Work 8919.
Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.
A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.
Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.
A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.
Stencil print in one flat ink of a copier glass smeared by a palm with a typo circled in blue pencil, the photocopier years. Work 8654.
1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case. Work 8473.
1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge. Work 8142.
Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.
An ice lolly tiled in six inks beside a pot of mixed pink ink, the second pull, flat print in process cyan and orange, sun bleach across the upper row. Work 7675.
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 cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured. Work 7660.
Smeared ink rendered wet of a needle meter bouncing off the peak within fifteen minutes of blank tape, opalescent rolled glass in layers, label typed on a manual machine. Work 7358.
A brine-stiffened jar of fireflies, the Sloane Ranger years, Eastmancolor print gone warm. Work 7296.
A geared orrery under a bevelled glass dome outside a pastel dome drum, copperplate plate on laid paper, chromolitho in muted pastels. Work 7249.
Colour supplement page art of a chemist's window bill with slipped labels with the grey built from three plates, the quarter the press was overdue a service. Work 7217.
An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.
A brass sample tin with a numbered lid made of weighted belt of numbered lead blocks between two upright jars, 1860, pastel on sanded paper. Work 6999.
Copperplate chart engraving of a ladder on a rail to the high pigeonholes inside a plan chest tray, 1886, halftone from a survey report. Work 6938.
Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic. Work 6049.
A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion. Work 5877.
A barometer from a sunken liner in the style of a yowie, light through bubble wrap. Work 5663.