Teaching watercolor of the region of the Axilla on the left side following the removal of the adipose and cellular tissue
Description:
After Thomas Wormald's A series of anatomical sketches and diagrams, plate 17 Large watercolor showing the muscles of the left shoulder with the arm extended, with the skin pulled away. Muscles are painted in bright red, nerves in white, veins in blue, and fat in yellow. 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.
