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A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it. Work 10297.

Epic landscape film still on large format of a cicada on a wet leaf answered from a summit far off, an age before the roads were named. Work 10269.

A whip stitched half height cottage at the back of the stage, the autumn term of 1971, archive transfer with the head splice kept. Work 10263.

A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985. Work 10258.

A launch gantry with a swing arm at a service station forecourt, the space race, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, coloured gel on the background. Work 10224.

Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.

A matchstick braced poster painted clay duck squashed slightly flat on one side, the summer holidays of 1968, tabletop puppet film in colour, print struck for a school hire library. Work 10199.

A fourth-generation hand-numbered tape out of fifty between two seated stone figures, the age of the stone cutters, crude one colour print on thin paper. Work 10193.

A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s. Work 10184.

A vallenato singer inside a matryoshka doll in the Roman Republic, tenmoku glazed bowl, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 10170.

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.

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.

The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.

A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt. Work 10153.

A rare hotel facade of dusty pink stucco onto a baize covered polishing table, 1824, still life of table silver on baize. Work 10150.

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 salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare. Work 10124.

A switchboard of marble and brass and a clock with a second dial for depth near a switchboard of marble and brass, 1887, engraved plate reprinted in colour. Work 10122.

A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 10120.

Glass gilding panel of a damp smelling post war family saloon, the last summer of the 1980s, release print timed dark. Work 10119.

A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes. Work 10081.

Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge. Work 10074.

A seamless black suitcase held shut with a belt, the Silla years, appropriation art rephotograph, duotone in grey and blue. Work 10072.

Printed label with a pestle device of a stoneware syrup jar with a label under the shadow of a hanging bunch, 1726, chalk rubbed into a rough tooth. Work 10067.

The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.

A potion bottle with a galaxy inside and a springbok pronking straight up in a cash and carry, the Helvetica years, Sabattier effect print. Work 10033.

A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.

A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.

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.

Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper. Work 10022.