Teaching watercolor of a woman with a large tumor on her humerus
Description:
After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plate 13 Large watercolor showing the torso and head of a woman with a tumor on her humerus. The woman's head is in profile, and she is wearing a white bonnet. A white cloth is draped around her right shoulder and over her torso, but leaving her left arm and shoulder exposed. The shoulder and arm are massively deformed by the tumor. 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.
