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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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This is a nationally best selling, thoroughly researched, work of art and factual history, seen on television, written about by newspapers across the country and
chosen to represent the State of Delaware 
on
QVC's "Quest for America's Best" where 600 maps sold out in five minutes.


The map's companion piece, Treasure Legends of the Mid-Atlantic, reveals more about the map's history and provides a key to the abbreviations used on the map.

The original is sold.
​Fine art reproductions are available in two sizes.
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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.
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.
The Art of the Hunt

Click the above link to read the Gannett News Service story that went around the country and helped make Ellen Rice's map a national bestseller.


"A unique treasure map documents a Seaford artist's search for shipwrecks and buried riches."

By Annette C. Silva, special to The News Journal

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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.

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

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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"
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  • Home
  • Originals
    • Original oils and pastels
    • Commemorative Celebration Series
    • Paintings in Progress
    • Commissions
  • Strength of Women Series
    • About the Strength of Woman Series
    • Standing on the Rock Vol I
    • The Journey Vol II
    • No Way Out Vol III
    • Freedom Vol 4
    • The Narrow path Vol V
    • Reflection Vol VI
    • In God's Hands Vol VII
    • Whatsoever things are lovely Vol VIII
    • Crystal Block Series
    • Stretched Canvases
  • Celebration Series
  • Prints
    • Indian River Inlet
    • Seascapes and Beach
    • Bay and Marsh Paintings
    • Trees in the Landscape
    • Maps & Treasure Coast History
    • Lighthouses, Coast Guard Stations & Delaware's Watchtowers
    • Mountains & Waterfalls
    • Paintings Created to Uplift
    • Children
    • Dogs & Cats
    • Horses & Chincoteague Island Ponies
    • Nature and Wildlife
    • Pen, Ink & Watercolor
  • ELLEN'S SMALL GIFTS
    • New Strength Woman Crystal Block Series
    • Porcelain Ornaments featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Wall clocks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Playing cards featuring shore paintings by Ellen Rice
    • Coasters featuring summertime coastal paintings by Ellen Rice
    • 15 oz. Ceramic Mugs featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Jewelry Keepsake Boxes featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Mousepads featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Bookmarks featuring Ellen's paintings
    • Journals featuring Ellen Rice paintings
  • News & Events
  • American Fine Craft
    • CL Whiting Leaf Leather >
      • Card Cases & Other Small Accessories
      • Classic Handbags
      • Coinpurse & Cosmetic
      • Leather-Edged Bags
      • Small Bags
      • Totes
      • Working Bags
      • Men's Wallets
      • Women's Wallets
    • RAKU - JDavis Inner Spirit Rattles
    • GLASS ART
    • JEWELRY BY THE SHORE >
      • Austin Cake's Sun Sea Sand Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Meg's Prism Sea Glass Jewelry
      • Kim Doughty-Cavagnaro
    • ORNAMENTS >
      • Peter & Robin Morris Copper Ornaments
    • Margie and Bill Lombard
  • About
    • About Ellen Rice
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    • About Ellen Rice Prints
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  • Visit the studio, where & when
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    • Virtual Wall
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