Teaching watercolor of a deformity of the arm caused by a severe burn, and the results of corrective surgery on the same arm
Description:
After Jacques D. Lebaudy's The anatomy of the regions interested in the surgical operations performed upon the human body, plate 18 Large watercolor showing a before and after picture of a corrective surgery for a severe burn on the patients left arm. On the left is the burned arm, with the skin drawn together and puckered up, forcing the hand into an unnatural bent angle. On the right is the same arm after the operation, stretched to its regular full length and with scarring visible in the skin. The pinky finger is removed. Watercolor 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.
