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This circular painting shows an episode from Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768): 'She was dress'd in white, and much as my friend had described her, except that her hair hung loose, which before was twisted within a silk net. She had, superadded likewise to her jacket, a pale green ribband, which fell across her shoulder to the waist; at the end of which hung her pipe. Her goat had been as faithless as her lover; and she had got a little dog in lieu of him, which she had kept tied by a string to her girdle. As I look'd at her dog, she drew him towards her with the string. "Thou shalt not leave me, Sylvio," said she. I look'd in Maria's eyes, and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat; for as she utter'd them, the tears trickled down her cheeks.
Title
Mr Yorick and Maria
Date
late 18th C
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 29 x W 29 cm
Accession number
222676
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Edgar Graham Lister, 1956
Work type
Painting
