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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

There's No Place Like Home

Oil Painting
ca. 1842 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
TitleThere'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.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 63.2cm
  • Estimate width: 75.6cm
  • Framed height: 88cm
  • Framed width: 100cm
  • Framed depth: 10cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990. Framed dims measured by RH July 2007.
Style
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted
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'.
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 142
  • Donald, Diane, and Jane Munro, Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Collection
Accession number
FA.91[O]

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Record createdMay 13, 2003
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