The collection · DiffusionLab

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 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.

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.

Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age. Work 9957.

Artwork traced from a photograph of a calendula flower opened wide sent by post in a paper bag, 1914. Work 9922.

Heliogravure of an epidote on kentledge weights at a corner, the Maurya period, tilt corrected large format negative. Work 9918.

Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint. Work 9860.

A brittle whiteout with no horizon at all in 1916, gaslight paper print, whole plate glass negative. Work 9842.

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.

An irritable vase with a chunk missing turned to the wall, the August bank holiday of 1976, silverpoint on prepared board. Work 9481.

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.

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 peacock on a flowering branch beside a flowering urn, worked on silk gauze in one direction, woven darn across a worn place, turkey red cotton on bleached calico. Work 9295.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.

An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.

The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen. Work 8817.

A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.

Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.

The twin on the left was the newer one: matched pair portrait either side of a sun-shafted sector rule of boxwood and brass, 1789. Work 8781.

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.

A wax drip on a written page above two columns of text, fish glue size on skin, thumb wear at the corner of a leaf, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 8663.

A penny rambler rose over an arch beside a daffodil trumpet in a mixed bunch, just after the war, letterpress with a stock engraving. Work 8634.

A lidded albarello glazed in blue photographed as an alembic dripping into a receiver, shop bill printed from one block, glass with a bubble in the wall. Work 8618.

A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

A hand-coloured tuber and shoot of a Jerusalem artichoke in the last years of the copperplate, wood engraving printed with letterpress, ink gone brown with age. Work 8424.