Krakatoa tsumami waves 5 and 6 Size:S: 36 x 28cm Skinner Street and traffic

Skinner Street and traffic

with arms extended

The scene is rural and the locations of Charleton

this example was built for King Edward VII

Krakatoa tsumami waves 5 and 6 Size:S: 36 x 28cm Skinner Street and trafficFour figures showing the passage of the fifth and sixth tsunami waves generated by the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 12 from The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, edited by G. J. Symons (London, Trubner & Co., 1888). The plate is inscribed: 'Krakatoa. Rep. Roy. Soc. Com. Plate XII. WAVE NO. V THIRD PASSAGE FROM KRAKATOA TO