Teaching watercolor of an unknown female subject with a rectal prolapse

Teaching watercolor of an unknown female subject with a rectal prolapse

Rectal Prolapse

Buttocks

Rectal Diseases

Rectum

John Collins Warren Watercolor Collection

Kaula, William J.

Teaching Aids and devices

Teaching Methods

Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927

Harvard Medical School. Department of Anatomy

Possibly of a local Boston patient

Watercolor of the buttocks and upper thighs of a woman with a rectal prolapse. Prolapse colored in deep red. Subject's upper half is clothed in white draping. The watercolor is framed in blue sewn textile.

Kaula, William J.

circa 1896

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Warren Anatomical Museum (21142.219)

Warren Anatomical Museum Records, 1835-2010 (inclusive), 1971-1991 (bulk). Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Box 32, Folder 27

Manuscript catalogue of the Warren Museum, Canavan Accession Log, Unprocessed

image

watercolors (paintings)

21142.219

The watercolor was painted by William J. Kaula circa 1896 for John Collins Warren to use in teaching. The watercolor was left in the Harvard Medical School Department of Anatomy after Warren's death in 1927. The Department donated the watercolors to the Warren Anatomical Museum on 05/02/1929.

53 W x 74.5 H cm