Historical information
The "Garden of the Grieving Mother" was inspired by letters written during the Great War, and in the knowledge that at least 42 pairs of brothers had been killed in Ballarat alone – that the mothers of those boys suffered doubly the aching grief tens of thousands of bereaved families bore.
Physical description
Colour photograph of the Grieving Mother sculpture by Peter Corlett. It is a part of the Garden of the Grieving Mother, Ballarat.