# Century Plant, Jamaica, in Hudson River School

Frederic Edwin Church painted this (May–September 1865), aged 39. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Botanical sketch of agave (century) plant in Jamaica among nearby green and brown foliage. Pointed leaves of the plant are rendered with greater attention and detail than the hastily painted background. Other plants visible in immediate foreground.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: May–September 1865
- Medium: Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions: 21.3 × 28.5 cm (8 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1917-4-675-b
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-edwin-church), American, 1826–1900

Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century.

8 works in the collection.

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