Emily Francis Weston(British, 1823-1886)A bound album of drawings and watercolours depicting the estates and excursions of Plowden J. C. Weston of South Carolina: 23.5 x 29.2 cm. (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.) within a bound album.
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2 Hagley from the river
3 Hagley mansion, back view
4 Sunset from Hagley Drawing room
5 Hagley, estate houses
6 Part of Hagley settlement
7 Hagley from Dining room window
8 Hagley, a grave
9 Hagley, the mansion
10 Hagley, barns
11 Hagley, parkland
12 Hagley, workers dwellings
13 The "Emily" in dock
14 The Servants Hall
15 Rachel's house
16 A church
17 Laurel Hill, the mansion
18 Laurel Hill, a sharpening stone
19 Laurel Hill, a workers dwelling
20 Near Laurel Hill
21 Laurel Hill, looking West
22 Laurel Hill, looking East
23 Pawley Island
24 Pelicans Inn
25 Pelicans Inn, the verandah
26 Pelicans Inn (Weston's Zoyland)
27 Creek bridge, Waccammaw
28 Bull Creek House
29 Camp Marion
30 Snowhill plantation
31 Snowhill plantation
32 Shrubbery Cothelstone
33 The interior of Hagley Chapel
34 - 101
sixty eight studies of the flora and fauna of Hagley, Laurel Hill, Snowhill and their environs.
102 - 106
five English views.
most signed, inscribed and dated
pencil and watercolour
23.5 x 29.2 cm. (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
within a bound album.
Footnotes
PROVENANCE:
Emily Frances Weston, née Esdaile (1823-1886), bequeathed to her niece.
Magaret Esdaile, bequeathed to her niece.
Lettice Anne Worrall, nee Esdaile (1880-1968).
By direct descent to the current owner.
Plowden Charles Jeanerette Weston (1819-1864) was the son of a wealthy South Carolina rice plantation owner. He was educated in England and it was there that he met the beautiful Emily Frances Esdaile, daughter of an English baronet, the couple were married in August 1847.
Splitting their time between Hagley and the plantations of Smowhill, Laurel Hill as well as property on Pawley's Island (now called Pelican's Inn), the young Westons led a happy, productive, and sometimes secluded, existance. Plowden and Emily had an exquisite chapel built on Hagley Plantation. The chapel could seat up to two hundred slaves at a time. One of thirteen slave chapels on the Waccamaw Neck, Saint Mary's of Hagley was by far the most ornate. The chapel was adorned with stained-glass windows handcrafted in England, hand-carved oak choir stalls, and a granite baptismal font. Plowden and Emily spent the first decade of their married lives absorbed in each other, the intricate workings of their plantation and their scholarly pursuits.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Plowden became company commander of the Georgetown Rifle Guard, Company A of the Tenth Regiment. He sadly died of tuberculosis near the end of the conflict.