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A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation. Work 10296.
Typology grid of masked figures of a part held up in a beam of light and a handwheel turned by two figures, the week the line ran double, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 10014.
Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure. Work 10005.
Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.
A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.
A figure standing with both arms raised beyond a bend of pale river, the shadow arrived first. Work 9780.
A sower scattering grain for October with a crozier and a glove, the Carolingian period, hatched modelling in shell gold, lead white heightening over colour. Work 9677.
A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.
Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink. Work 9664.
She rang the bell twice for luck: line illustration with hatched shadow of a braces-snapping man in a blue smock holding up four fingers, the morning after a record close. Work 9610.
Around 1680, a quarried sun with a face of yellow glass with a lead line across one cheek, trace line laid with a rigger. Work 9551.
Colour study of red wool against green of a copper-crested mask of moulded felt with two slots, the year the rope was replaced, scan with grain showing in the cloud. Work 9515.
A figure in a shawl of beetle green thread and a painted arrow faded to a ghost beneath a sky bleached to bone white, late in a season of still air, long lens compression across bare ground. Work 9497.
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.
Colour negative work pushed for density of a procession of figures in stacked collars with a fish still on the spear, the last week of a wet winter. Work 9479.
The prize was given out twice: a quill and inkwell in the Art Nouveau years, bird's eye view lithograph, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 9357.
Streets left white between ruled blocks of a market square with its cross, lantern slide of a chart detail, india proof mounted on thick paper. Work 9337.
Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.
The Black Decade, a lich at a level crossing of matchwood gates, Fujicolor NPS 160, bitumen sunk into the shadows. Work 9233.
Interiors feature in full colour of a woman in a beaded gown adjusting one strap in the season at the hotel, cover proof with the title over gilt. Work 9086.
A traveller drifting with the head thrown back made of figure with light passing through the helmet in the shadow of the pylon, the long luminous interval, large plate scanned at full chroma. Work 9039.
A dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative. Work 8973.
An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.
Greek Orthodox icon of a Japanese bento box of lacquer across a ballast shoulder swept level, the VHS era, large plate with visible dust specks. Work 8891.
Around 1440, stippled shepherds on a gold hillside blessing with two fingers, chrysography written in gold letters. Work 8881.
X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.
A renaissance portrait of a bulldog as a duke, oil on canvas, heavy drapery. Work 8791.
A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.
Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.
A wide-shouldered pleated costume held together with visible stitches, some time after the last collection, colour transparency of a single look, emulsion that reads pink in the shadows. Work 8682.