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The image refers to a scene in Laurence Sterne's <i>A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy</i>(1768), entitled <i>The Grace</i>. After a disaster when his horse loses two shoes, Parson Yorick is obliged to spend the night in a French peasant's house:                                                          \n\n\"When supper was over, the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife - to bid them prepare for the dance [...] all his life long he had made it a rule, after supper was over, to call out his family to dance and rejoice; believing, he said, that a chearful and contented mind was the best sort of thanks to heaven that an illiterate peasant could pay -\n- Or a learned prelate either, said I.\"\n\nCarter also painted another scene from <i>A Sentimental Journey</i>, using his daughter as the model for Maria. 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Vide Yoricks Sentimental Journey Vol.II Page 192.  Geo. Carter pinxt.  J.R. Smith fecit.  London, Printed for R. Sayer, & J. 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