Two putti supporting a roundel with the portrait of John Bulwer; above, coat of arms. Etching, ca. 1650.

[London (at the Black-spread-eagle Ind. Duck Lane)] : [J. Hardesty], [1650]

1 print : etching ; image 13.6 x 7.5 cm

Vix ea nostra voco sed quae nos fecimus ipsi. Arma virumque. Vultus vultispicis Johannis Bulweri cognomento Chirosophi First part of lettering quoted from Ovid, Metamorphoses (XIII, 140) means "I call only those things our own which we have done ourselves", i.e. unlike those things which we have inherited. The suggestion is that Bulwer was the first member of his family to have a coat of arms

Possibly by "H". The 1650 edition of Anthropometamorphosis includes on fol. A5r six couplets of verse headed "The engraver of the intended copy of the author's countenance unto the author", signed "H." Very roughly etched, possibly by an amateur

Henry Bromley, A catalogue of engraved British portraits, London 1793, p. 97 (without mention of artist's name)

Wellcome Collection 567600i