Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the great trochanter of the femur
Description:
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 13 Large watercolor showing the pelvis and femur, with the gluteus medius and minimus. The top of the femur is broken and completely detached from the rest of the bone, though the gluteus muscles are still attached to the fragment. 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.
