An engraved portrait of Robert Fludd (1574–1637) within an oval architectural frame. Fludd is depicted as a middle-aged man with a pointed beard and mustache, wearing a large, starched ruff and a dark robe. He holds a pair of gloves in his right hand, which rests on a closed book. In the upper right corner within the oval is a coat of arms featuring three horses' heads and a chevron with various charges. In the upper left background, rays of divine light emanate from a cloud containing the Hebrew Tetragrammaton (יהוה). These rays contain Latin text. The oval frame itself is inscribed with Fludd's name and titles. Below the portrait is a ten-line Latin poem.

ROBERT FLUDD, ALSO KNOWN AS DE FLUCTIBUS, OF OXFORD, DOCTOR OF MEDICINE, AND ESQUIRE, etc.

In thy light we shall see light

Ps. 18. 29.

יהוה

If thou dost illuminate my lamp, Jehovah God, thou shalt make my darkness shining.

ON THE PORTRAIT OF THE LEARNED AUTHOR.

Let the ancients commend Paeon and praise Machaon,
And thou, Epidaurus, boast of thy son of Phoebus.
We shall celebrate thee, ROBERT, in our own years,
Who bearest a name derived from the frozen WAVES.
Indeed, sustained by the ineffable strength of thy mind,
Thou describest whatever either world contains.
Thou art sweet in speech, and grave, O FLUDD, and at once
To be called the true Apollo of thy fatherland in the art of healing.
Though Paeon be girt with the Argive Daphne,
The Laurel which is given by Phoebus is entirely thine.

I. E. Christian.