Teaching watercolor of a cross section of the lower abdomen, showing the outer tissue of the abdomen and the locations of the blood vessels that come through it

Teaching watercolor of a cross section of the lower abdomen, showing the outer tissue of the abdomen and the locations of the blood vessels that come through it

Abdomen

Pelvis

Femur

Blood Vessels

Veins

Arteries

Inguinal Canal

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

Large watercolor showing a cross section of the lower abdomen. The femurs and pelvis are cut through, showing the interior of the bone. The tissue of the abdomen is intact, but the blood vessels that come through it, such as through the inguinal canal, are cut and appear as color ovals. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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21142.369

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.

100 W x 69 H cm