waterscape

noun

1. An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.

   As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]

Where it comes from

From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry waterscape (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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