William Ashcroft
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William Ashcroft was a late 19th Century British artist best known for his color sketches of sunsets over England
in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa
volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of color photography.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa
Krakatoa
Krakatoa is a volcanic island made of a'a lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island , and the volcano as a whole. The island exploded in 1883, killing approximately 40,000 people, although some estimates...
volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of color photography.