A Picture of Britain : 15 June  –  4 September 2005
 
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an exhibition celebrating the British landscape - 15 June – 4 September 2005
 
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Quiz: The Highlands and Glens
1) Which landscape painting represents 'Highlands and Glens'?
A
B C
 
2) Arrange these paintings in chronological order.
A
B C
 
3) What British landmark is depicted in this painting?
Durdle Door
Fingall’s Cave
The Needles
 
4) Who painted this landscape?

William McTaggart
Alexander Runciman
Thomas Girtin
 
5) When was this painting made?
 1700-1800
1800-1900
1900-2000
 
6) Which cities can be found in the A Picture of Britain region: 'Highlands and Glens'?
Inverness, John O’Groats, Aberdeen
Norwich, Cambridge, Ipswich
Derby, Oxford, Gloucester
 
7) Which painting does not represent the 'Highlands and Glens'?
A
B C
 
8) Which group of artists are displayed in the section on the Highlands and Glens?
JMW Turner, Edwin Landseer, Hamish Fulton
William Blake, Samuel Palmer, George Stubbs
George Stubbs, JMW Turner, John Constable
 
9) Which Scottish poet wrote:
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasng the deer-
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go
James Macpherson
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott