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.”