Teaching watercolor of an inguinal aneurysm and the femoral and popliteal arteries with a popliteal aneurysm
Description:
After Sir Charles Bell's Practical Essays, vol. 2, pl. 2, by Oscar Wallis Large watercolor showing aneurysms in two different arteries. The image on the left shows the femoral and popliteal arteries with a large aneurysm on the end of the popliteal artery, which has been cross sectioned to show the hollow interior. On the right is an aneurysm in the inguinal artery, with the nerve and vein behind it. The aneurysm has also been cross sectioned to show the layers of the interior cavity. 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.
