Teaching watercolor of the thigh cut horizontally at the midpoint to show muscles, bone, nerves, and blood vessels
Description:
After Alfred Velpeau's Traite complet d'anatomie chirurgicale, generale et topographique du corps humain, plate 16 Large watercolor showing the thigh and genitalia of a male subject. The thigh is cut horizontally, as in an amputation, at the mid-point. The muscles, nerve, blood vessels, and bone can be seen in cross-section in the cut. 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.
