Teaching watercolor of enormous aneurysm of the descending aorta and spinal deterioration caused by contact with it

Teaching watercolor of enormous aneurysm of the descending aorta and spinal deterioration caused by contact with it

Aneurysm

Aortic Aneurysm

Aorta

Spine

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 Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 40, pl. 2

Large watercolor showing a huge aneurysm on the aorta. The top image shows the aneurysm from the back, with the ribs in the background. It is seen as a large growth protruding to both the right and left sides of the aorta. In the bottom image, a segment of the spinal column shows severe deterioration, with the bone eaten away to show spinal matter. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.

Wallis, Oscar

1848-1854

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Original work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (f Treadwell 1101)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.297

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