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Portrait of Samuel Pepys: AD.11.21-188

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Samuel Pepys

Maker(s)

Printmaker: White, Robert
Painter: Kneller, Godfrey, baronet (After)

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Transferred (1876) by Cambridge University Library

Dating

17th Century#
Production date: circa AD 1690

Note

Plate used as a frontispiece to Pepys' "Naval Memoirs" (1690), with the motto “Mens cujusque is est Quisque”.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Engraving

Identification numbers

Accession number: AD.11.21-188
Primary reference Number: 194984
O'Donoghue: 2
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Audit data

Created: Friday 12 April 2013 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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