Teaching watercolor showing the torso of a female with cancer of many kinds of tissue and the various sizes and types of tumors

Teaching watercolor showing the torso of a female with cancer of many kinds of tissue and the various sizes and types of tumors

Neoplasms

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. 32, pl. 4

Large watercolor showing the left side of the torso of a female patient with tumors over most of her body. The skin has been cut away and pulled back to expose the muscles of her left side and arm. Tumors of all sizes and in all colors cover her body, on muscle, breast, sub-cutaneous tissue, and sub-peritoneal tissue. 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 (21142.408)

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

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.408

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