Teaching watercolor of bone loss of the cranium caused by bone cancer and of a tibia with late stage bone cancer

Teaching watercolor of bone loss of the cranium caused by bone cancer and of a tibia with late stage bone cancer

Neoplasms

Bone Neoplasms

Skull

Tibia

Bone and Bones

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 Auguste Nelaton's Elemens de pathologie chirurgicale, fig. 243 and 244

Large watercolor showing two different instances of bone cancer. On the let is a cross section showing the interior of a skull that shows bone loss from the cancer. Several patches of the bone are dark, and there are two round holes in the bone. On the right is the head of a tibia that is shown in cross section. The interior of the bone is porous, and the right exterior is spiky or hairy in texture. 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 (21142.374)

Original source work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (21.A.274)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.374

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