A property illustration by Margret Picken Commissioned by a real estate agency for the purpose of advertising 125 Jolimont Rd., Vermont
This property is listed as having sold for $124,000 in 1994
Made by using Rotring ‘Rapidigraph’ drafting pens with Rotring ink on Rapidigraph polyester drafting film, double matte.
Trained as a cartographic draftsman within the mining industry, Margaret Picken is an artist who worked producing property illustrations for real estate agencies in eastern suburbs of Victoria from 1983-2005. Retiring from the industry as technological changes favored coloured photography over illustrations, and commissioning companies over sole contractors.
This artwork is of Historical Significance as a record of local domestic architecture.
A black ink line drawing on drafters film by Margaret Picken, of two single story brick houses, one behind the other. There is a driveway on the left leading to the house at the back of the block, with paths up to the front doors. In the foreground on the right is a front lawn, and a brick post box.
There are two hole punch holes just below centre of the upper edge
Units 1+2/2 Lusk Dve., Vermont
Margaret Picken - 93
Woodards
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