This engraving’s inscription praises Emanuel Sweert’s botanical work, suggesting that his contributions grant him an enduring legacy through the flowers he documented. The circular inscription states: 'The most adorned and most expert Emanuel Sweert of Batavia Flowers are the bloom of humanity, and vain is man.' Below the portrait is a poem by Augerius Clutius (Outgert Cluyt, 1577–1636), which reads:

To Emanuel Sweert
Batavian prince of the Seven Mountains, root-cutter
Epigram
If showing the images of flowers to the world means to live,
Then to live forever it is.
Thus, it is fitting that you live on beyond the grave through these flowers,
In an eternal likeness.
A. Clutius