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I Am Starving

Simeon Solomon · 1857

Simeon Solomon: British, 1840 - 1905

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom
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Simeon Solomon, Simeon Solomon, Simeon Solomon, Simeon Solomon, Simeon Solomon

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I Am Starving

1857

pen and black ink with gray wash · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Medium
pen and black ink with gray wash
Dimensions
sheet: 17.3 x 9.7 cm (6 13/16 x 3 13/16 in.)
Collection no.
2006.139.1
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By the artist
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Simeon Solomon. I Am Starving. Simeon Solomon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simeon_Solomon,_I_Am_Starving,_1857,_NGA_119584.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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I Am Starving — Simeon Solomon. 1857.

Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 17.3 x 9.7 cm (6 13/16 x 3 13/16 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2006.139.1. Gift of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis in honor of Andrew Robison.

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.

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Simeon Solomon. I Am Starving. Simeon Solomon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simeon_Solomon,_I_Am_Starving,_1857,_NGA_119584.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.