Krakatoa tsumami wave 7 musicians from Provincial Characters

from Provincial Characters

A street entertainer who appears to be very fat

Plate 49 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales

Church of St Edmund the King

Krakatoa tsumami wave 7 musicians from Provincial CharactersTwo figures showing the passage of the seventh wave generated by the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 13 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 XIII. WAVE NO. VII FOURTH PASSAGE FROM KRAKATOA TO THE ANTIPODES.