Teaching watercolor of a large growth on a child's head and a microscopic view of the tissue

Teaching watercolor of a large growth on a child's head and a microscopic view of the tissue

Histology

Cells

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

Possibly of a local Boston patient

Large watercolor showing two different purple and red growths on the skin, and a large microscopic view of tissue. The top left growth is on the head of a child, above and behind the right ear. It is purple, with red dots on the exterior. The top right growth is a different case, and shows only the growth on skin and not the location. This one is in two parts, dark purple and red, with white lines over the surface. The lower part of the painting is taken up by a round microscopic view of tissue, surrounded by a black frame. The tissues show several different forms, including several tube like structures filled with cells, and a few amoeba-like blobs. A red blood cell is shown from scale. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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21142.292

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