Teaching watercolor of circumscribed abscesses in bones
Description:
After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plates V and VI Large watercolor showing two cases of abscesses in bone. They show both the exterior and interior of the bone. The top image has a large bulbous area of the bone that is hollow, and plugged with a cork. The bottom image shows bones with smaller hollow areas within the bone marrow. Watercolor is framed in green sewn textile, and metal grommets are 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.
