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There's No Place Like Home


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'.


Oil on canvas entitled 'There's No Place Like Home' depicting a dog with an empty bowl being approached by a snail.


Great Britain (probably, painted)


ca. 1842 (painted)




Height: 63.2 cm estimate, Width: 75.6 cm estimate, Height: 88 cm Framed, Width: 100 cm Framed, Depth: 10 cm Framed


Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857


Oil painting entitled 'There's No Place Like Home' by Edwin Henry Landseer. Great Britain, ca. 1842.


Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 142
Diana Donald and Jane Munro, ed. Endless Forms. Charles Darwin, Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum; New Haven: Yale Center for British, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-300-14826-8.


Oil paint; Canvas


Oil painting


Snails; Dog


Paintings; Anthropomorphism; Images Online


Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection