Teaching watercolor of a tumor on the face of a woman

Teaching watercolor of a tumor on the face of a woman

Neoplasms

Jaw

Neck

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 study of a tumor on the face of a woman. Two external views of the tumor show it as protruding from the right jaw and neck, below the ear. The tumor is lumpy and dark beneath the skin, and red blood vessels cover the outside. There are also two views of the tumor itself, one that looks fleshy and red, and the other which appears to be a large chunk of bony material. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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21142.386

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