Harrogate Borough Council

Independent Museums in the Harrogate District

In the Harrogate district you can also see the following independently run museums:

Nidderdale Museum of life in the Yorkshire Dales at Pateley Bridge

Yorkshire Law and Order Museums in Ripon

Visitor information for all Harrogate Borough Council run museums and galleries

Shopping

Visit our shop and take home a piece of inspiration.

George Frederic Watts was a remarkable artist of the Victorian age.

We offer a variety of Watts related gifts and literature including postcards, prints, DVDs and books.

All items can be purchased either on a visit to the Mercer Art Gallery or posted to you following a purchase over the phone.

See our stock list below:

Place an order by email

or phone 01423 556188

G F Watts: Victorian Visionary

Exhibition Catalogue

£20.00 (+£5.50P&P)

Essays by leading scholars examine the artist's output, life, reception, and legacy.

Victorian Artists in Photographs:

The World of G F Watts

Selections from the Rob Dickins Collection

£12.50 (+£4.50P&P)

Showcasing a snap-shot of The Rob Dickins Collection of Victorian photographs, now at Watts Gallery. Featuring illuminating photographs of the greatest names of the Victorian age.

G F Watts: Victorian Visionary
DVD
£5.95 (+75p P&P)

Featuring interviews with Antony Gormley, Sandy Nairne, Patrick Marber, Mark Bills and Veronica Franklin Gould, the DVD looks at this extraordinary artist and the Watts Gallery - unique as a purpose-built Gallery for a single professional artist.

The Paintings of G F Watts: a postcard book

The Paintings of G F Watts - a postcard book
£4.95 (+75p P&P)

A lovely postcard book featuring 16 paintings by GF Watts, including A Wounded Heron, Found Drowned, Ophelia, Paolo and Francesca, Hope and After the Deluge.

Hope Canvas
£24.95 (+£4.50 P&P)

Hope is one of the most mysterious and arresting paintings from any age - a blindfolded woman astride a globe, plucking at a remaining single string, when all the others have snapped.

The canvas is 12 inches x 16 inches.

Mini prints of paintings by G F Watts