Teaching watercolor of skin disorder on the back of the neck, and of a star-shaped open wound
Description:
Possibly from a local Boston patient Large watercolor showing the back of the neck of a male patient with a beard. A large area on the back of the neck is raised and lumpy, colored in red and yellow. On the right, a deep purple lump has been opened in a star shape, showing a red and black interior. 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.
