Historical information

Adam Lindsay Gordon famed poet lived in Ballarat for two years about 1867/68 situated behind Craig's hotel (central Ballarat). The cottage now stands in Ballarat Botanical Gardens having been relocated in 1934 the bust was commissioned in 1941.

Significance

the artwork is of historic and aesthetic importance to the people of Ballarat

Physical description

Bronze bust cast on granite and concrete plinth.

Inscriptions & markings

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Poet
1833-1870