The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s.Work 10217.Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog.Work 10215.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.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.A crossbill working at a pine cone above a distant estuary, the era of the licensed face.Work 9884.A robin on a snowy fence post, engraved initial letter with foliage, she knew all the answers, letterpress on a rag paper sheet.Work 9727.Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench.Work 9547.A nightjar crouched along a branch along the border of a lancet in around 1200, steel engraving in cold black.Work 9525.Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker.Work 9433.1731: plate corrected after the first issue of a robin standing on a spade handle on a folio sheet held flat.Work 9154.A crowing rooster on a fence rail on a motel matchbook with a neon sign in 1953, Japanese matchbox label art, blind emboss with no ink at all.Work 9031.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.A wryneck flattened against bark above a distant estuary, 1755, flat colour with a lithographic key line, colour sitting proud of the outline.Work 8866.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 8712.A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow.Work 8560.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 8399.The plug was pulled at half eleven: black and white with blown highlights of a long-billed quail hidden in a hayfield, a hundred degree July.Work 8233.An incubating wren singing with the tail cocked, 1731, drypoint with the eye burnished bright, stone recut in the dark barring.Work 8170.A hornbill on a bare branch, hallucinatory jungle treatment, the rain came down in one colour, silver retained print.Work 7253.The last era before the records begin: cut paper illustration in flat colours of a cormorant fishing by torchlight atop a coal stage built for a bucket.Work 6966.A shot male kingfisher on a bare willow twig beside the female in duller feather, 1854, two figures printed from one stone.Work 6870.A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter.Work 6830.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6763.A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page.Work 6554.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.The sirens were a test: a bird bath inside a vending machine, Veronese banquet painting.Work 5678.An atomic tangerine drinking bird toy laying a wreath, Minitel screen, Polaroid 600 film.Work 5652.A great auk and a welding mask in the Inca empire, maki-e lacquer.Work 5646.A sunburst velvet raven as a court poet, spirit photograph, limited edition, yellow cast.Work 5546.