Teaching watercolor of a dislocation of the scapular extremity of the clavicle and a partial dislocation of the shoulder
Description:
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 357 and 406 Large watercolor showing the bones of two shoulder injuries. On the left is a dislocation of the clavicle at the end near the scapula, and on the right is a partial dislocation of the shoulder, showing the humerus and scapula. 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.
