There's No Place Like Home
Oil Painting
ca. 1842 (painted)
ca. 1842 (painted)
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The title comes from the line 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home', in the song 'Home Sweet Home', first performed in London in 1823. A critic admired the dog and found it 'difficult to describe in words the profoundly imploring expression with which the eyes are endowed'.
Object details
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| Title | There's No Place Like Home (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'There's No Place Like Home' by Edwin Henry Landseer. Great Britain, ca. 1842. |
| Physical description | Oil on canvas entitled 'There's No Place Like Home' depicting a dog with an empty bowl being approached by a snail. |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
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| Summary | The title comes from the line 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home', in the song 'Home Sweet Home', first performed in London in 1823. A critic admired the dog and found it 'difficult to describe in words the profoundly imploring expression with which the eyes are endowed'. |
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| Accession number | FA.91[O] |
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| Record created | May 13, 2003 |
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