Teaching watercolor of the creation of an artificial anus

Teaching watercolor of the creation of an artificial anus

Colon

Intestines

Surgical Procedures, Operative

Surgical Equipment

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 Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traite complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, vol. 7, plate 43

Large watercolor showing two steps in the process of creating an artificial anus. Shows the lower abdomen and groin of a patient, with the skin cut away at the top to show the large intestines. A clamp is inserted through a hole in the skin to hold two pieces of intestine together. 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 (21142.201b)

Original source work can be found in the Countway Rare Books Collection (1.Mw.1831.B, Cabinet 11, Shelf 5)

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watercolors (paintings)

21142.201b

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