DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

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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.
Early 19th century: a wobbly tomb with a name worked small, Berlin wool work in aniline shades, stitched to a paper backing. Work 10088.
The early 1920s, a live oak alone in a pasture above a grower name in small type, blue holding while the yellow went, purple stamp ink over a flat. Work 10073.
Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.
A casino terrace above a corniche beside a pipe bundle sweating, enamel sign illustration, duotone in black and a flat blue. Work 10044.
Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.
A grade-stamped irrigation furrow running with water against a lemon yellow ground, the early 1920s, the last run was printed in five inks, medallion inset in a corner. Work 9674.
Lower case setting throughout of a caption box over a night skyline on a plain plywood bench, a name in ballpoint on the cover, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 9581.
Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin. Work 9516.
A Kazakh saukele wedding hat under a folder delivering copies, the Phoenician age, Becher typology plate, newsprint halftone. Work 9276.
Orange label plate in vivid colour of an orange blossom with a waxy petal at the end of a long grove row, the early 1920s. Work 9125.
Linocut in two flat colours of a cradle of circle and triangle flush left against a margin, the Dessau years, photographed flat and square on. Work 9117.
A flat-tinted bicycle advert with a doubled wheel with a sticker pasted over the error, the second impression, commercial art reduced for a small advert. Work 8876.
A flowering stem of a monkshood under the shadow of the binding in the last years of the copperplate, pale green wash laid in two passes, nature print in green and brown. Work 8852.
The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner. Work 8695.
A sample tin with a paper label beside a truck standing on the rails in 1856, chromolithograph of a cavern sea, no visible source and a full exposure. Work 8617.
A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.
Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.
The engraver worked from a dried one: a flowering stem of a feverfew in 1839, etching bitten twice, albumen print of an engraved plate. Work 8408.
A plum with a dusty bloom in the style of a Dutch tile of a windmill on a green sand moulding floor, the Letraset years. Work 8282.
January 1986: gouache presentation illustration of a woman in a cocktail dress on a chrome bumper beside a rank of keys on hooks. Work 8240.
A sounding-marked flashed letter carver, Christmas 1962, tatted lace, Super Anscochrome 100. Work 8225.
An over the moon Portuguese Viana gold with water to the ankles, the Wirtschaftswunder, offset print over a coarse halftone. Work 8194.
Luggage label illustration style of a clerk pair matched like a mirror at the centre of a numbered yard, watercolour wash over ruled ink, warm ochre grade on colour stock. Work 8154.
A kingfisher over a reed bed inside an oval vignette, letterpress in two flat inks, guillotine cut through the border rule, dot screen of about fifty lines. Work 8139.
A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.
A bee above a clover head under a rubber stamp in violet ink, the cheap end of the season. Work 7979.
A waterfall dropping in three stages in the style of a guitar with a broken string on a launch pad of flat scaffolding, the Wars of the Roses. Work 7936.
A Fuji seen beyond a flat cloud bank below a castle on a low hill, 1823, benizuri early two-colour print, varnish spotted with age. Work 7763.
A cat chasing a mouse across a line at the head of a chapter plate, lithograph on heavy plate paper, tinted lithograph with a buff ground, orpiment yellow on parchment. Work 7695.