Atmospheric effects of the Krakatoa eruption

Chromolithograph included as frontispiece plate for 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 three figures (figures 4-6) show the sunset effects caused by the eruption of the volcano on Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. These landscape scenes were observed and painted on 26 November 1883 at Chelsea, England.