3740318 Scene in the Paris shop from A Sentimental Journey, 1841 (oil on canvas) by Frith, William Powell (1819-1909); 90.2x69.9 cm; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: In Laurence\'s Sterne\'s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) his alter ego Reverend Mr. Yorick is feeling a young Parisian shop assistant\'s pulse in a shop where he has asked directions, when he is interrupted by her husband - "Monsieur is so good, quoth she, as he pass\'d by us, to give himself the trouble of feeling my pulse. - The husband took off his hat, and making me a bow, said, I did him too much honour... " ).