Large teaching watercolor of breast neoplasms in the skin and muscles of the breast

Dublin Core

Title

Large teaching watercolor of breast neoplasms in the skin and muscles of the breast

Subject

Breast Neoplasms
Breast
Muscles
Skin
Neoplasms
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

Description

After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 26, plate 3

Abstract

Large teaching watercolor of breast cancer. Small, hard nodules grow on tan and pink skin, and down into the red and yellow muscles visible in the cut-away. Two larger pink and red tumors are also visible. Below is a close up of the tumors on red and yellow the muscles. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Creator

Wallis, Oscar

Date Created

1848-1854

Rights

The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all the materials in the collection. For use information, contact the Warren Anatomical Museum Curator at chm@hms.harvard.edu

Access Rights

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Is Part Of

Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.279)

References

Original work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (f Treadwell 1101)

Format

image

Medium

watercolors (paintings)

Identifier

21142.279

Provenance

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.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Physical Dimensions

69 W x 100 H cm

Files

http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/file_upload/21142_279_ref.jpg

Citation

Wallis, Oscar, “Large teaching watercolor of breast neoplasms in the skin and muscles of the breast,” OnView, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/13249.