Teaching watercolor of advanced breast cancer

Teaching watercolor of advanced breast cancer

Breast Neoplasms

Breast

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

After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 31, pl. 2

Large watercolor showing several views of severe breast cancer. The top shows the neck, shoulders, and breasts of a woman with breast cancer. Raised bumps completely surround the left breast, and arch over the top of the right breast. The right breast has black tissue around the bottom and sides of the breast, and the skin on the surface of the breast is gone, exposing pink flesh and black areas of necrosis. The lower left image shows a cut away view of the tissue in the right breast of the same patient, showing how the tumors extend throughout the breast tissue. The right image shows a lateral view of the left breast. 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 (21142.281)

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

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.281

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