Teaching watercolor showing a damaged pelvis and femur

Teaching watercolor showing a damaged pelvis and femur

Dislocations

Femur

Hip

Pelvis

Pelvis Bones

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 Astley Cooper

Large watercolor showing two views of a damaged pelvis. Bone is enflamed around where the right femur would make contact. The damage can also be seen on the head of the femur. Potentially caused by dislocation. Watercolor framed in sewn green textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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21142.126

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