Teaching watercolor of indirect and direct inguinal hernias

Teaching watercolor of indirect and direct inguinal hernias

Hernia, Inguinal

Spermatic Cord

Cremaster

Testis

Groin

Genitalia, Male

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 Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, plate 38 bis.

Large watercolor showing two views of inguinal hernias. Both hernias are shown on one body, with the viewer's left being a direct hernia, and the viewer's right being the indirect hernia. The top picture shows the two hernias with the cremaster and spermatic cord intact, and the lower shows them dissected to show the interior. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.234)

Original source work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (1.Mw.1831.B, Cabinet 11, Shelf 5)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.234

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 100 H cm