Teaching watercolor of circumscribed abscesses in bones

Teaching watercolor of circumscribed abscesses in bones

Tibia

Femur

Bone and Bones

Abscess

Hypertrophy

Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection

Wallis, Oscar

Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890

Teaching Aids and devices

Teaching Methods

Harvard Medical School. Department of Anatomy

Fitz, Reginald, 1885-1953

After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plates V and VI

Large watercolor showing two cases of abscesses in bone. They show both the exterior and interior of the bone. The top image has a large bulbous area of the bone that is hollow, and plugged with a cork. The bottom image shows bones with smaller hollow areas within the bone marrow. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, and metal grommets are in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.151)

Original work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (ff RD684 .S84)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.151

Henry Jacob Bigelow employed artist Oscar Wallis exclusively from 1848 - 1854 to paint a series of large teaching watercolors to illustrate Bigelow's lectures at Harvard Medical School. Wallis painted the teaching diagrams from local subjects and from the atlases of established medical authorities. The effort cost Bigelow $6,000. In 1890 Bigelow presented the watercolors to Reginald H. Fitz to be used in the Harvard Medical School's Department of Anatomy. The watercolors were transferred into the Warren Anatomical Museum between 1890 and 1930.

68.5 W x 99 H cm