Historical information

Watkins created his sculpture for an exhibition in Melbourne 1866: "I dressed the pillar about 2 foot 6 inches high and 16 inches square and proceeded to carve in each panel representation characteristic of Victoria 1st Panel a Kangaroo in a small scrub thicket, 2nd an Emu amongst a clump of little flowering correa; 3rd the Wimmera Down and on the 4th side my name and the date AD 1866 On the top of the pillar was an urn of globular form to represent the seed pod of the Eucalypti with spreading leaves underneath" Extract taken from 'Victoria's Wonderland' a Grampians history Monument now in private hands

Physical description

Heatherlie Quarry; Obelisk : Photo shows stone monument created by Francis Watkins using materials from quarry Photo shows two sided view of monument with large stone on top