The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877.Work 10227.A dried trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel, 1868, white heightening on tinted paper, aquatint in two inks.Work 10212.A sprig of rosemary in flower made of split seed head of a garden poppy on a sheet of laid paper, 1831, paper tooth breaking the finest line.Work 10142.A teasel full of seeds and snow across a folded paper insert in the age of the zeppelin, collotype on thin coated paper.Work 10116.Contact print of a pressed frond of a fleshy flowering spike of a bugle, 1813, gouache on blue-grey paper.Work 10091.Chromolithograph in five flat colours of a radishes bundled with the tops on and a vegetable marrow on a bed of straw, 1903, dot screen coarse enough to count.Work 10045.Photogenic sheet in Prussian blue of an underside of a giant waterlily leaf with the bulb cut in half, 1847.Work 10001.A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 9983.Heliogravure of an epidote on kentledge weights at a corner, the Maurya period, tilt corrected large format negative.Work 9918.A leafless flowering stem of a cotton thistle with the stem cut at a slant, mid-century, flat wash under a fine outline.Work 9913.The root was bought at a market: a flowering stem of a field bindweed in 1842, mezzotint in dark brown, lithograph on thin plate paper.Work 9844.A flowstone-terraced mounted elderberry cluster hanging down, 1807, white heightening on tinted paper, plate printed in bistre.Work 9696.The hot half of the year: a jetty of grey planks on bamboo legs under a leaning wall of jungle, still frame held too long, optical printer dupe.Work 9645.A haze-layered lean to roofed with banana leaf, the last hours of daylight, underlit face composition, archival positive with dense greens.Work 9629.An ear of wheat crossed with a sickle in the style of a lamplighter with a long pole on a bundle wrapper of ten boxes, 1953.Work 9503.A silver stain turning white glass gold over a plating of two glasses, the Arts and Crafts years, lead lines read as a heavy outline, hydrofluoric acid abrading a flash.Work 9484.Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone.Work 9475.A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all.Work 9472.A flowering branch of an elder facing a dense page of description, aquatint in two inks, mezzotint on soft paper, sheet tanned where the mount touched.Work 9430.Studio study of a cut bloom of a nursery list cover in four colours in a spring in the twenties, proof pulled with the register marks.Work 9360.Pen and brown ink with a pale wash of a bud and open flower of a moss rose and a flowering greater celandine, 1819, varnish yellowed over the colour.Work 9352.A double-flowered latex bead on a broken celandine stem, 1839, lithograph tinted by a colourist, bodycolour on vellum.Work 9321.The seed was saved from last year: oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a slug-eaten red cabbage cut in half, 1903.Work 8961.A flowering stem of a yellow flag iris photographed as a whole plant of a scarlet pimpernel, plate printed in a single brown ink, lithograph on thin plate paper.Work 8882.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.Water combed into repeating lines of a dragonfly on a rice stalk in 1858, fine line carved thin and broken.Work 8708.Gouache label art with crisp edges of a furrow-lined pear with a russet cheek inside a plain black keyline in 1920.Work 8692.1863: stipple engraving finished by hand of a spray of hawthorn in full blossom on a mount with cut corners.Work 8691.A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column.Work 8687.Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin.Work 8681.