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The island and volcano of Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, submerged during the late eruption – Vintage Wall Art

The island and volcano of Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, submerged during the late eruption, 1883 — antique engraving
The island and volcano of Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, submerged during the late eruption, 1883. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The island and volcano of Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, submerged during the late eruption comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Strait of Sunda between Java and Sumatra, is the subject here, shown in the wreckage of its 1883 eruption, when much of the island collapsed into the sea. The climactic explosions of late August 1883 were among the loudest sounds in recorded history and set off tsunamis that struck nearby coasts of Java and Sumatra, killing many thousands of people. *Harper's Weekly* ran this wood engraving in its September 29, 1883, issue, bringing the distant catastrophe to American readers as one of the period's most closely followed natural disasters.

Created / published1883
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1883 Sept. 29), p. 613. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Volcanoes.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157739

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