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| Anonymous Sculptor Death Mask of John Keats 1816 plaster Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| James Barry Francis Douce 1803 ink and wash on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron Sir Henry Taylor 1864 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Clodion (Claude Michel) Montesquieu 1783 marble statue Musée du Louvre |
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| John Dugdale Maurice Sendak 2000 cyanotype Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| François-Xavier Fabre Vittorio Alfieri 1793 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| John La Farge William James ca. 1859 oil on board National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Alphonse Legros Thomas Carlyle 1877 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Lucinda Mackay Professor John Erickson 1999 acrylic on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Man Ray Nancy Cunard 1925 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Rollie McKenna James Merrill 1961 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Irving Penn Rachel Carson 1951 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Irving Penn T.S. Eliot 1950 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ellen Emmet Rand Henry James 1900 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| John Singer Sargent Edmund Gosse 1886 oil on canvas Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire |
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| Nelson Shanks Timothy Clifford 2007 oil on canvas Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Richard Westall John Ireland ca. 1800 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
I forgot about the airplane that hit an eagle. An eagle is a bird of God, and it must not be killed, and therefore tsars, emperors, kings, and others like them must not be killed either. I am not a predatory bird and will therefore not kill predatory birds. I know I will be told that predatory birds are harmful creatures, then I will say exactly the same as I have said about lice that are found in peyes. I like tsars and aristocrats, but their actions are not good. I will set them an example and will not destroy them. I will give them a medicine to cure them of drunkenness. I will help them in every way because I am god, but I will ask everyone to help me do this, because I cannot fulfill all god's desires by myself. I want everyone to help me, and therefore I ask people to apply to me for help. I am god and my address is in god.
– from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, written in Russian in 1919, translated by Kyril FitzLyon and edited by Joan Acocella (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)