Teaching watercolor of the reparation of fractures, resulting in both united and ununited fractures
Description:
After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plate 23 Large watercolor showing four different repaired fractures of the bone. In the upper left is a perfect union of a fracture in the humerus. In the upper right is a united fracture in a tibia where the periosteal surfaces were in apposition. In the bottom left is an ununited fracture of the humerus, and in the bottom right is an ununited fracture of the radius. 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.
