Teaching watercolor of a dissection of the inguinal region
Description:
After Thomas George Morton's The surgical anatomy of the principal regions of the human body, Inguinal Herniae, plate II Large watercolor showing the lower portion of a male torso and groin, partially dissected. The skin is pulled back to show the abdominal muscles and the testis and spermatic cord as it descends from the inguinal canal. 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.
