Teaching watercolor of the superficial bursae over the joints of the fingers and toes

Teaching watercolor of the superficial bursae over the joints of the fingers and toes

Fingers

Toes

Bursa

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 James Syme's The Principles of Surgery, plate 12

Large watercolor showing the right fingers and toes. Small incisions are opened in the skin above the joints in the fingers in toes to show the white bursae on the joints. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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21142.159

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.

69 W x 100 H cm