Samuel Pepys
by Robert White, after Godfrey Kneller
ca. 1680–1700
British Museum, P,7.86
The image includes Pepys' motto: “Mens cujusque is est Quisque”—the mind is the true self (Cicero). Below the oval frame the text reads: “Sam. Pepys. Car. Et. Iac. Angl. Regib. A. Secretis Admiraliæ.”
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