1839. Daily Picayune (New Orleans), 15 June, 2/3. The greenness of the wide-spreading luxuriant prairie, with its rich verdure, set on with the rural scenery of tall forests in the background, and a water-scape rolling its liquid plains in front.
1854. Fairholt, Dict. Terms Art, Water-scape, a term sometimes used to denote sea-views, in contradistinction to landscapes.
1860. S. R. Hole, Tour in Ireland, xiii. (1892), 144–5. The landscape (or waterscape ?) was so calm and still, that it had somewhat of a dioramic effect.
1901. Punch, 21 Sept., 224/1. Ever obtaining peeps of such landscapes and water-scapes as whet the appetite for the entire panorama ‘at a glance.’
