beachscape

English

Etymology

beach +‎ -scape

Noun

beachscape (plural beachscapes)

  1. A beach landscape.
    • 2001, Stanley Weintraub, Whistler: A Biography
      ...crowded with dozens of people and with a backdrop of photographically accurate buildings — the antithesis of a Whistler beachscape.
    • 2009, Jonathan Jones, Turner Watercolours (in The Guardian, 17 January 2009)
      He is a realist as well as a Romantic, as you can see when you look at the marvel of this exhibition, his great Dawn After the Wreck (c.1841), a beachscape of despair that invites direct comparison with the Romantic art of Turner's German contemporary Caspar David Friedrich.
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