The collection · DiffusionLab

The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.

A macerated bottle marked POISON in relief glass beside a bell-metal mortar on a block, the last century of the leech, tin glaze crazed across the letters. Work 10140.

A tagged woodcock crouched in dead leaves beside a numbered figure key, the great subscription years, the label is in two hands, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone. Work 10127.

Cadel penwork with faces worked in of a thumb hollow worn into a lower corner peering out of an initial, late 10th century. Work 10098.

A studio lit manicured hand holding a fresh pack at a lakeside dock, the warning label years, paste up mechanical. Work 10019.

The motion was carried: a busker's dog owner in the VHS era, papyrotomia paper cutting, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 9929.

An utterly deadpan spout carved as an animal head, an afternoon that did not end, dye transfer with a green cast. Work 9827.

A griffin guarding a text block and a pelican piercing its own breast below a miniature in a frame, late 8th century, bestiary plate with a written gloss. Work 9261.

A plain of moss over old basalt under a very wide top margin, rosemaling panel, edge torn against a metal rule. Work 9122.

The 1938 edition, girls in a ring holding hands in the margin beside a poem, paper browned at the fore edge, a name written inside the front cover. Work 8984.

Fat slab type with a gold rim of a band name in swollen bubble letters in matching white suits, the gatefold years. Work 8885.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

An abraded lion rampant in a shield, mid 15th century, waxed up on a glass easel for painting. Work 8696.

A door-money eagle of Saint John on a lectern, mid 9th century, punched gold worked with a ring tool. Work 8644.

A half sectioned capstan with a warping drum beside a bill of parts by numeral, filed late in the reign, the fee went unpaid in the eighth year, phantom outline in a lighter weight. Work 8606.

The Carolingian period: a tonsured basilisk coiled in a foliate border, Parisian atelier work of small scale, palimpsest with the first hand showing. Work 8577.

A specimen sheet of faces and sizes at a linecaster keyboard, line block with a fine rule, flash powder interior negative, gold toned print with pale shadows. Work 8571.

A grease-smeared dragon swallowing its own tail, the Whitsun of 1964, Japanese ema votive plaque, print with the crowd left in shadow. Work 8340.

A heraldic shield with quartered arms and a traceried head of a tall window outside a terminus squared to the slope, around 1740, lead lines read as a heavy outline. Work 8337.

The third season on the bottom, an air reservoir of riveted plate near an anchor fluke in the mud, collodion negative varnished warm, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 8284.

A stage brace propped behind a flat before a painted village street, his nose was a bottle top all along. Work 8144.

1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space. Work 8119.

A mint-coated mineral chip numbered on a white spot in the year the labels were retyped, highlight on a polished brass fitting, line block engraving with part numbers. Work 8084.

Woodcut with the colour outside the line of a vagus nerve traced to the abdomen and a lobule of the liver magnified, 1664, copper engraving on a folded sheet. Work 8027.

Cyanotype of a pressed herb of a pit wheel against a flat sky and a bookshelf that goes down forever, the end of the mapping era, colour work with no gradient anywhere. Work 7227.

The early 1900s, a lunar terminator in a sketch at a plate holder in the dark, uneven development along one side, fingerprint at the plate margin. Work 7196.

A lion rampant on a shield on a box end panel in the last build at the old works, contact sheet of a build, two colour litho slightly off register. Work 6912.

Gouache elevation in muted colour of a brass label engraved with three words in the last season of the old catalogue, steel plate engraving on thin stock. Work 6785.

A skid road greased with dogfish oil, union local bulletin illustration, the drive hung up for eleven days, wood engraved reproduction. Work 6745.

Black and white documentation print of a plinth with nothing on it at a London institute of art, 1981, sequence shot on one roll. Work 6543.