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A wood engraving depicting Yorick's interaction with the monk from A Sentimental Journey. Yorick's face of disgust can be seen here

A Sentimental Journey Painting

A book examining the types of passions and emotions of human beings.

Maria, from A Sentimental Journey, puts her face in her hands in sorrow as she contemplates her husband and father

This book written in 1810 analyzing the passions and how they affect the human mind.

An illustration describing Laurence Sterne's views on prominent writers such as Tobias Smollett and Samuel Sharp. He refers to them as Smelfungus and Mundungus.

An Illustration of the scene, "The Dead Ass"

A colored, engraved plate depicting LaFleur playing his fife and servants dancing in the kitchen. This illustration comes from the first edition of "A Sentimental Journey".

This oil painting is a depiction of Maria from Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

Before Laurence Sterne published Shandy andA Sentimental Journey, he wrote sermons as a parson which tackled many questions about human identity and experience in the eighteenth century.