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Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic
A factual visual history of America's busiest maritime passageway from the 1500s through mid-1800s
Copyright Ellen H. Rice, Ocean View, Delaware. All rights reserved.
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It was these treasures and their untold stories which first lured Ellen Rice, then primarily a landscape and seascape artist, into the research and creation of the map. Local lore had it that if you walked along the Delaware or Maryland coast during or after a storm, you might find old coins - Spanish doubloons, pieces of eight and other treasures from sunken ships - washing ashore at your feet. (Below, a 24-carat gold-plated replica of a King George III rose gold guinea found near the 1785 wreck of The Faithful Steward.
Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic takes the viewer back in time from the Medieval 1500s when Spaniards searched for gold and silver on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, then called Bahia De Santa Maria, until the mid-1800s and the advent of the U.S. Cutter Revenue Service, predecessor of the U.S. Coast Guard.
The artist corroborated every fact on the map. Anything that could not be corroborated was omitted or designated questionable. Several of the ships portrayed were drawn numerous times to assure accuracy as new information came to light from archives and maritime archeologists.
The artist corroborated every fact on the map. Anything that could not be corroborated was omitted or designated questionable. Several of the ships portrayed were drawn numerous times to assure accuracy as new information came to light from archives and maritime archeologists.
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To Ellen, the granddaughter of two U.S. Navy admirals, the creation of Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic was a way of preserving a part of history and way of life that is fast disappearing at the bottom of the ocean.
"The ocean floor and ancient artifacts, which wash ashore after severe storms, are time capsules of knowledge from which we can learn, " she says. |
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"I hope my map will in some small way help stir further efforts toward responsible research, exploration, recovery and preservation of our nation's maritime history - and more than that - create in our children an interest in the lessons history can teach."
Accompanying each of the 300 Captain's Edition of Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic map is a 24-carat, gold-plated, matching number-engraved coin replica molden from a King George III Rose Gold Guinea found on the shoreline of Delaware's "Coin Beach" north of Indian River Inlet and adjacent to the 1785 wreck of the Irish merchant ship Faithful Steward (depicted on the map).
The original rose gold guinea from which the 300 coins were made is on display in the coastal Fenwick Island, Delaware, DiscoverSea Museum, founded by Dale Clifton, who recovered the original coin. Each of the map's 300 replica coins is engraved on the back with the number of the map it accompanies.
Ellen Rice drew the foundation of the map with information culled from eight different charts and maps from the late 1600s and early 1700s, including an original 1673 Augustine Hermann map conveyed to her by its owner.
Accompanying each of the 300 Captain's Edition of Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic map is a 24-carat, gold-plated, matching number-engraved coin replica molden from a King George III Rose Gold Guinea found on the shoreline of Delaware's "Coin Beach" north of Indian River Inlet and adjacent to the 1785 wreck of the Irish merchant ship Faithful Steward (depicted on the map).
The original rose gold guinea from which the 300 coins were made is on display in the coastal Fenwick Island, Delaware, DiscoverSea Museum, founded by Dale Clifton, who recovered the original coin. Each of the map's 300 replica coins is engraved on the back with the number of the map it accompanies.
Ellen Rice drew the foundation of the map with information culled from eight different charts and maps from the late 1600s and early 1700s, including an original 1673 Augustine Hermann map conveyed to her by its owner.
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From these time-worn documents came original names of more 2,000 towns, rivers, creeks, Colonial settlements, known pirate's isles and holds, manors, plantations, native American villages, and gold & silver mines from the 1500s through mid-1700s.
On no other map is this information combined. |
The Captain's Edition is one of 17 works of art by Ellen Rice on display in
Bethany Beach Oceanside Suites, a Marriott Residence Inn
Bethany Beach Oceanside Suites, a Marriott Residence Inn
Ellen and her Treasure Beaches of the Mid-Atlantic work of art and factual history were featured on QVC representing Delaware in its "Quest for America's Best"
