Vorlage:Painting The Gross Clinic is an 1875 painting by Thomas Eakins. It is oil on canvas and measures 8' by 6'6". A seventy year old professor in a black frock lectures a group of Jefferson Medical College students. Included among the group is a self-portrait of Eakins, he is seen over Dr Gross' right shoulder drawing the scene presented. The patient is a young man who is having a tumor of his thigh removed. At the time of the painting, surgery could not be performed without family consent, and the mother of the patient is seen in the foreground of the painting, cringing in abject horror. The depiction of surgery and blood was shocking at the time. It is housed in Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was first sold for the paltry sum of $200. Vorlage:Painting-stub