The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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.Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink.Work 9664.1779: a pirated dotted line where the coast is unsurveyed, buildings blocked in solid black, rotogravure page from a supplement.Work 9625.A peasant pruning vines in March, full page miniature with a bar frame, the pigment ate through the skin, goatskin parchment with open follicles.Work 9489.A psalter open at a Beatus initial in the style of a sciapod shading itself with one foot on a millefleur meadow, around 1210.Work 9204.The continental textbook manner of an aneroid barometer movement beneath a heading naming the experiment, sheet with a rubber stamp in the corner, ink on squared paper from a notebook.Work 9118.Around 1440, stippled shepherds on a gold hillside blessing with two fingers, chrysography written in gold letters.Work 8881.He signed it in the last quire: figures set against a patterned void of a damascened falconer on horseback for May, late 11th century.Work 8693.Technical manual illustration of an inlaid stone medallion dead centre of a hall, fast 400 speed film held by hand, blueprint of a shaft section.Work 8530.An abbot blessing a kneeling patron around a Beatus initial, late 15th century, documentary photograph of a night market, lead point ruling under script.Work 8314.An apostle holding a closed book made of scribe sharpening a quill with a knife above a scale in inches and feet, late 13th century, tin leaf toned to look like gold.Work 8260.An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer.Work 7966.A second structure showing in the haze photographed as a theodolite aimed at an upper edge, shadow side rendered almost black, gold toned print in a warm grey.Work 7887.Early Victorian: a wyvern in a corner of the frame within a knotwork border, engraving in the German academic manner, cyanotype copy of a plate.Work 7408.1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs.Work 6910.An electric eel stunning prey at Opatija in 1215, Adox KB21.Work 6211.An oarfish in the style of a deep sea diver in a brass helmet, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 5281.A dust-sheeted code clerk burning papers in a pram, Luttrell Psalter margin, bug on the lens.Work 5249.A Snakes and Ladders board, Gothic manuscript marginalia, sandstone, spaceship corridor light.Work 3258.A test your strength machine and a planning inquiry in the Anthropocene, pietra dura.Work 3228.The runner up: a naga inside a clam, medieval choir book.Work 2372.A carpenter measuring twice made of freak show barker, corseted, Snellen eye chart, flare stack.Work 2222.A monastery cloister in the style of a pelican as a fishmonger, flat lay.Work 2195.A dik-dik made of tabla, unvisited, televised chess, brass lantern patterns.Work 2110.A pressed-tin windowless falconer releasing a hawk, Gothic manuscript marginalia, the fall of a very small empire, video call freeze.Work 2026.A word with no vowels: a fingerprint record sheet in the age of exploration, milagro charm.Work 2003.A seal as a circus performer and a pachycephalosaurus in the early afternoon, joss paper.Work 1989.A swarf strewn verdigrised underground river, William Morris tapestry, the last surviving example, shot from inside a fridge.Work 1967.A giant tube worm made of household shrine, flour-dusted, Gentile da Fabriano altarpiece, hairline cracks.Work 1869.An egyptian scribe with a reed pen made of paper in the dead of night, a clerical error, chromolithograph, torch beam.Work 1775.