Picture Of Britain

This book accompanies a major BBC1 television series presented by David Dimbleby and a parallel exhibition at Tate Britain. It taps into the love of landscape that is a fundamental part of the British character. The TV programmes take six journeys around the country, covering the North, South, East and West of Britain, the Heart of England and the Highlands and Glens. By exploring the artistic response to the landscape, A Picture of Britain contemplates subjects such as travel, nationhood and romantic yearning.

A celebration of the British landscape, A Picture of Britain includes paintings of Snowdon in Wales, Glencoe in Scotland as well as the Lake District. Turner's Norham Castle, Gainsboroughs’ Conard Wood, John Constable's Flatford Mill, LS Lowry’s Industrial Landscape and James Ward's Gordale Scar are just some of the wonderful paintings in this exhibition. Drawing on major works from public and private collections as well as from Tate’s own unrivalled collection of British landscape painting, the exhibition brings together over 250 works including oil paintings and watercolours as well as drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, sculpture and other fascinating material.