Teaching watercolor of ankylosis and curve of the spine as found in an elderly individual
Description:
After John Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 1, figure 5 Large watercolor showing a lateral view of an ankylosed and curved spine of an old person. The vertebrae are fused together by ossific matter, and it is curved at the top into a stoop or slouch. Watercolor is framed by 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.
