Teaching watercolor of tongue ulcers and papules caused by venereal disease
Description:
After Philippe Ricord's Traite complet des maladies veneriennes, plate 35 Large watercolor showing the mouth, nose, and chin of three different subjects with different tongue problems. The far left has large ulcers on the back of the tongue. The middle has a large white ulcer area, rimmed in yellow on the right side of the tongue. The right has small raised red papules, while the rest of the tongue is affected by a yellowish tinge and small red dots. Watercolor is 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.
