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| Pisanello Head with Three Infantile Faces ca. 1440-1444 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Matteo de' Pasti Head of Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini & Fano 1447 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) Head of Marcus Croto before 1469 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Vittore Gambello Self Portrait as Emperor Augustus ca. 1510-30 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of Giuliano II de' Medici, duc de Nemours 1513 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Domenico di Polo de' Vetri Head of Alessandro de' Medici, 1st Duke of Florence 1532 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giovanni da Cavino Head of Arethusa ca. 1550 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Régnier Head of Louis XIII, King of France 1624 gilt-bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Thomas and Abraham Simon Head of General Monk 1660 gold medallion (struck at the Restoration of King Charles II) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Giovanni Martino Hamerani Head of Christina, Queen of Sweden 1680 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jean Mauger Head of Louis XIV, King of France ca. 1713 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Stefano Passamonti Head of sculptor Antonio Canova 1816 lead medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| André Galle Head of painter Jacques-Louis David 1820 bronze medallion National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jules-Clément Chaplain Personification of France (commemorating the Exposition Universelle, Paris) 1900 bronze medallion Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Maurice Delannoy Genius of Theatre 1930 bronze medallion Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Head of Minerva 1932 gold medallion Philadelphia Museum of Art |
The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
It may seem morbid of an embezzler to keep a memorandum, yet
many of them do. It may be mere neatness.
– Wallace Stevens, "Surety and Fidelity Claims"
I've made a little sluice-gate in the flow
of cash across the spreadsheet on my screen.
Amid torrential chaos and foreseen
disasters it maintains its small and slow
on-off diversions, so my work can show
the delicacy of difference between
the beans I count and one uncounted bean,
and where the latter might invisibly go.
The hollowed shoe-tree, the hermetic jar
are gadgetry I might revert to yet.
There is the money of the thing, the far
secure retirement years, the deep-hedged bet,
but I love working where the unknowns are,
and writing down what I need to forget.
– Henry Taylor (2002)