“One Day There Came to him Sindbad the Landsman,” from “The First Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor,” in “The Arabian Nights”

1922

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: Image: 29 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (74.3 × 52.1 cm) Watercolor border: 34 × 24 in. (86.4 × 61 cm)
Collection no.: 2014.643.1
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

“One Day There Came to him Sindbad the Landsman,” from “The First Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor,” in “The Arabian Nights” — Edward Julius Detmold. 1922.

Medium: Watercolor. Dimensions: Image: 29 1/4 × 20 1/2 in. (74.3 × 52.1 cm) Watercolor border: 34 × 24 in. (86.4 × 61 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2014.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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