Teaching watercolor of five views of spinal dysraphism in infants
Description:
After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, volume 1, part 16, plate 4 Watercolor showing five views of spinal dysraphism or spina bifida in infants. Three show the condition in the lower back, one shows a dissection at the upper spine near the neck, and the last is a dissected tumor. Watercolor framed in green textile sewn border. 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.
