Teaching watercolor of large mass on the back of the left shoulder
Description:
Possibly of a local Boston patient Large watercolor showing a mass on the back of a patient's left shoulder. The painting shows only the shoulder of the patient, with the torso, arm, and back draped in white fabric. The patient is sitting on a chair. The mass on the shoulder is spherical, and colored in dark purple and blue like a bruise. Red vessels cross the surface. A small white dot, surrounded by red, is near the top of the mass. 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.
