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Definition of landskip

landskip
Landscape Land"scape, n. [Formerly written also landskip.] [D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip.] 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. 3. The pictorial aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.
Landskip
Landskip Land"skip, n. [See Landscape.] A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. --Milton.

Meaning of landskip from wikipedia

- real views. The word "landscape" entered the modern English language as landskip (variously spelt), an anglicization of the Dutch landschap, around the...
- Dolgellau Bridge The Niagara Falls' Pistyll Rhaeadr, Aber Falls Solitude (or Landskip with Hermits) Other Ceyx and Alcyone (1768) Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol...
- my Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet Village where I can paint Landskips [landscapes] and enjoy the **** End of Life in quietness and ease". Of...
- each other: Grongar Hill invites my Song, Draw the Landskip bright and strong; — Lines 13–14 'Landskip' was by then an art term and is soon partnered by...
- from Thomas Gray's use of it in his poem". Paul Sandby, An Historical Landskip Representing the Welsh Bard in the Opening of Mr. Gray's Celebrated Ode...
- between London and Pietrasanta, Italy. Works by Stone were included in Sweep~Landskip (2018), an exhibition of international artists whose work use landscape...
- Bainbrigge Buckridge in his Art of Painting described him as "a good English landskip Painter, both in oil and distemper. He was also skilful in architecture...
- painter. He was a "history and landskip painter", according to Vertue, born at Antwerp, and "disciple to one Groenwegen, a landskip painter likewise". He travelled...
- Virgin bore, And bathes the Forest where she rang'd before... The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods, And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods... The...
- Charlotte Aynscombe and Alexander Cozens Landskip, circa 1750s, now in the British Museum....