Teaching watercolor of damage to the femur and pelvis caused by a dislocated femur
Description:
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 86 and 87 Large watercolor showing the pelvis and femur. Top image shows the dislocated femur wedged into the pelvis, with significant bone damage to both bones. The lower image shows just the pelvis of the same case, showing bone damage. 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.
