Waiting for death [print] : Bewick's last work, left unfinished, and intended to have been completed by a series of impressions from separate blocks printed over each other.

Impression from the unfinished block originally cut by or after Bewick in 1828 and subsequently set aside following his death until the summer of 1832 when Bewick's daughter Jane and son Robert Bewick arranged with London printer Vizetelly, Branston & Co. to strike off ca. 250 impressions for publication. Cf. Tattersfield.
Signed in the block with the artist's initials at lower left.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.