Art, literature & history
Waiting for Death
1828
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- wood engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 29.4 × 36.4 cm (11 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.53.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Bewick. Waiting for Death. Thomas Bewick; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Waiting for Death — Thomas Bewick. 1828.
Medium: wood engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 29.4 × 36.4 cm (11 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2017.53.6. Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.