Teaching watercolor of tumors on the back of a male patient
Description:
Possibly of a local Boston patient Large watercolor showing the back of a male patient. His buttocks are draped in white cloth. Two large tumors are visible in the middle of the right side of his back. These have black centers and are surrounded by dark purple dots. On the right hand side is a line drawing of a lateral view of the tumors, showing their peaked shape. 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.
