Teaching watercolor of an extremely distorted spine affected by scrophulous caries, cut away to show that the spinal canal is free and regular in its form despite the deformity

Teaching watercolor of an extremely distorted spine affected by scrophulous caries, cut away to show that the spinal canal is free and regular in its form despite the deformity

Spine

Bone and Bones

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 J. Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 6

Large watercolor showing a lateral cross section view of an extremely curved spine, with rib cage and pelvis. The spine curves extremely backwards before making a sharp turn forwards at the bottom of the rib cage. The rib cage is deformed by the curve. Cross section of the spinal canal shows that it is unimpeded by the extreme curvature of the spine. Watercolor framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.168

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