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 January 17, Jonathan Jones, “Turner Watercolours”, in The Guardian:

     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.