In his New York Evening Sun column for January 27, 1917, Don Marquis reported that an artist named Helena Smith Dayton had executed a statue of Marquis’s correspondent Archy, the poet whose soul had transmigrated into the body of a cockroach. On January 30, Archy himself responded,

                                                                            i
stared at the statue and the statue stared at
me and i resolved in the future to be
a better cockroach of course it doesnt flatter me
any my middle set of legs arent really
that bowed but the intellectual look
on my face is all there

I haven’t yet found an image of the statue, but in the restored image below you’ll find some other works from Dayton’s oeuvre. She called them clay cartoons.

Text sources

Don Marquis, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, ed. Michael Sims. Penguin, 2006.

Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch, August 30, 1914, section 6, page 1. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1914-08-30/ed-1/seq-39/