Teaching watercolor of the later stages of hip disease, showing the apparent shortening of the leg on the diseased side

Teaching watercolor of the later stages of hip disease, showing the apparent shortening of the leg on the diseased side

Hip

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 Robert Druitt's The principles and practice of modern surgery, page 269

Large watercolor showing two individuals with hip disease. On the left is of the lower half of a male child as seen from above with a white shift pulled up over his hips. In the second stage of hip disease, his right hip is enlarged, and the right leg appears shortened. On the right is the naked lower half of a patient as seen from behind in the third stage of hip disease. The hip is swollen, and you can see the shortening of the limb and the unnatural curve of the spine caused by the disease. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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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