Teaching watercolor showing interior layers of coagular of an enormous aneurysm of the descending aorta, an aneurysm of the carotid, and the contraction of the aorta
Teaching watercolor showing interior layers of coagular of an enormous aneurysm of the descending aorta, an aneurysm of the carotid, and the contraction of the aorta
Description:
After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 2, liv. 40, pl. 3 Large watercolor showing aneurysms. Top is a dissection of a large aneurysm of the aorta, with the interior painted black and deep red. The layers, in red and black, can be seen in the walls of the swelling. In the lower left is an aneurysm of the carotid, with the vein beside it in blue, and in the bottom center is a dissection of the same aneurysm. In the lower right are two pictures of a constricted aorta. Watercolor framed in green sewn textile, with metal grommets in each of the four corners.
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Notes:
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.
