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| Joseph Ducreux Self Portrait, Screaming ca. 1790 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Théodore Géricault Head of a Man ca. 1815 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Charles Damour Profile Head of Bearded Roman 1836 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Antoine-Jean Gros Three Heads ca. 1810 oil on canvas (study for painting, The Capitulation of Madrid) Harvard Art Museums |
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| Thomas Lawrence Mad Girl 1786 pastel on vellum Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Thomas Lawrence The Countess of Darnley ca. 1825-30 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Benjamin Robert Haydon Head Study ca. 1820 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize Head of a Man 1830 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy L'Effroy 1773 etching Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Gustav Heinrich Näcke Head of a Young Man ca. 1818 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| George Romney King Lear in the Storm ca. 1780 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| George Romney Profile of Grotesque Head ca. 1780 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Joseph Paelinck Self Portrait ca. 1812 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Archibald Skirving Miniature Self Portrait ca. 1790 watercolor on ivory (made in Rome) Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Archibald Skirving Self Portrait ca. 1790 pastel (made in Rome) Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Edmund Thomas Parris Head of a Woman 1819 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
Roman Room
Someday our buried life will come to this:
a shaft of sunlight touching the Etruscan
surfaces, the basin still intact
as if awaiting hands. How many
centuries sequestered is an expert's guess,
you tell me. I admire the tiles
some craftsman spiraled in the ceiling's dome
detailing Neptune's beard. Or someone's.
What will they say of us, who have no home
(we like to say) but one another? When they pry
our hearts apart and excavate the sum,
is that the place we'll lie? Where the words lie?
– Todd Hearon (2008)