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Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831–February 16, 1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the
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. He and a companion, Nathan Flint Baker, traveled to
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, the
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,
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,
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and
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on a Grand Tour in 1851–52, making one of the earliest photographic records of the Arab and ancient worlds, including the
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and the
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, views along the
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, the ruins at
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and the
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in Greece.


Biography

The youngest son of
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Jonathan Hunt Jonathan Hunt may refer to: * Jonathan Hunt (New Zealand politician) (1938–2024), politician from New Zealand * Jonathan Hunt (Vermont congressman) (1787–1832), U.S. Representative from Vermont * Jonathan Hunt (Vermont lieutenant governor) (1738 ...
of Vermont and the former Jane Maria Leavitt, and brother to architect
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and painter
William Morris Hunt William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824September 8, 1879) was an American painter. Born into the political List of Hunt family members of Vermont, Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under hi ...
,The fourth brother was Jonathan Leavitt, a graduate of the University of Paris who became a medical doctor in Paris. Like his brother, painter William Morris Hunt, Jonathan Hunt was an apparent suicide, at age forty-nine in Paris Leavitt Hunt was born in
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, but grew up in
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following the early death of his father, a Vermont Congressman whose father had been the state's
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. Leavitt Hunt attended the
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, and subsequently enrolled in a Swiss boarding school, finally taking a law degree from the
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. He then enrolled at the Swiss Military Academy in
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. Hunt was fluent in French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and could write in both
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and
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.Known as the scholar in the family, Hunt was offered a professorship at Princeton, then known as the College of New Jersey, but turned it down in favor of his interests in the law, travel and the arts. Hunt's companion on his
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journey was a wealthy sculptor from Ohio and friend of the Hunt family. Nathan Flint Baker had been travelling in Europe for a decade, and announced his intention to travel through the Middle East. Hunt decided to join him, meeting him in
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, in late September 1851. Hunt and Baker spent several weeks in
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practicing photography, and then sailed from
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to
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and eventually up the
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into the
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, to
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(where they were among the first to photograph the ruins), then on to
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, to what is today
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, then on to
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and
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, before returning to Paris in May 1852. Hunt's and Baker's photographs were dazzling, especially for a brand-new medium many had never seen before. They photographed the
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and the Pyramids at
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, the temple complex at
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, the
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at Thebes, and the ruins on the Island of
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. They travelled farther to photograph the
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on
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, the tombs and temples of Petra, the
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in
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, the ruins at
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, and finally the buildings of the
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in Athens. The 60 extant photographs from their journey show that Hunt and Baker were keen on the new medium and familiar with its techniques. It was a real partnership: both men brought their own strengths to the process, and images that survive demonstrate their aesthetic acumen as well as their journalistic desire to show the settings in which they worked. One image of an unveiled
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female dancer, signed on the negative by Hunt himself, is likely the earliest photographic portrait of a Middle Eastern woman. Another image of the less photogenic view from the rear of the
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demonstrates two men unafraid to indulge their take on a revered landmark. The trip was a logistical challenge. Accompanying the two travelers for part of the journey were Leavitt Hunt's older brother, the architect Richard Morris Hunt, and two other friends. The group hired a ''dahaheah''A ''dahaheah'' was a large houseboat with triangular cross-sails. The rear of the boat sported a cabin, where the chartering party could sleep. Typically, they took their meals on the roof of the cabin under a large awning. This means of conveyance was typically used by English and other foreign tourists on the Nile in the nineteenth century. The crew consisted of a dozen or more men, who cooked, captained the vessel and shopped in the bazaars for supplies. and a crew of 13 Egyptians to take them down the
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. Architect Hunt, later famous for his
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Newport palazzos, painted and made sketches along the Nile while his younger brother and Baker took photographs. (The results were later shown at a 1999 exhibition in Washington, D.C.) Following their arduous journey, the pair of no-longer-neophyte photographers returned to Paris and made prints from their 18x24 cm negatives which were made using a waxed-paper process. Having developed the negatives, each man kept a personal album of the prints. The young Hunt showed his to the German naturalist and explorer
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, who brought them to the attention of the
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, and Hunt made a formal gift of 11 prints to
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, the German founder of the study of ancient Egyptology. Baker left his album with a New York dealer to discern commercial interest in the prints. Following their extraordinary journey, the two men took divergent paths. Baker returned to
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, to enjoy the life of a wealthy aesthete, while Hunt completed his studies at the Swiss Military Institute, then returned to America, where he took a second law degree, this one from Harvard. He began practicing law in
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, the home of his brother Richard Morris Hunt, until the outbreak of the
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, when he enlisted as lieutenant on the staff of General Heintzelman. Eventually he was promoted to lieutenant colonel for bravery at the
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. Hunt subsequently attained the rank of full
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and assistant adjutant general in the Union Army. Following the Civil War, Leavitt Hunt returned to New York City and his law practice for several years, until he retired in 1867 to
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, where his wife Katherine Jarvis had inherited the estate belonging to her father William Jarvis, a prominent Vermont businessman and diplomat best known as the first importer of
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into America. Leavitt Hunt purchased his own estate at nearby Weathersfield Bow and became a gentleman farmer. Hunt was particularly interested in the rare breeds of Dutch cattle that he raised, as well as the white pine forests he propagated on his estate, which he dubbed ''Elmsholme''. During his retirement as a farmer, Hunt also became an inventor, with several patents for new plows. As far as is known, neither Hunt nor his companion Baker ever showed much interest in the photographic medium after their journey. Their prints are rarely seen, very scarce, and are among the most valuable early photographic images. Hunt's personal album is now in the collection of the Bennington Art Museum,
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. Baker's album evidently disappeared. The collection of photos presented to Egyptologist Richard Lepsius is housed at the
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's
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-Historama in
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. Hunt's personal negatives are believed lost, but the prints he made became the property of his brother Richard Morris Hunt and were donated to the American Institute of Architects. The photos are now at the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division in
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A 1999 show at the American Architectural Foundation's Octagon Museum showcased Leavitt Hunt's 1853 journey. Entitled "A Voyage of Discovery: The Nile Journal of Richard Morris Hunt", the exhibition consisted of seventy of Leavitt Hunt's original photographic prints, as well as drawings and watercolors by Richard Morris Hunt from the museum's Prints and Drawings Collection. Some of Leavitt Hunt's personal prints were donated by his family after his death to the
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, where they are part of the permanent photographic collection. There are also a few original prints from this early Middle East trip in the
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and at the
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in
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.
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's Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photography also owns several of the works by Hunt and Baker. Although Leavitt Hunt never returned to photography, he remained vitally interested in the arts until the end of his life, corresponding with fellow Harvard-educated lawyer and author Henry Dwight Sedgwick, as well as other intellectuals of the era. He and his wife travelled frequently, often crossing paths with family friends like
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and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. He also wrote poetry on the side. Perhaps the highest tribute paid Leavitt Hunt and his brothers was that of
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. "The remarkable families", Emerson wrote, were "the three Jackson brothers....the three Lowell brothers....the four Lawrences....the Cabots....the three Hunts, William, Richard and Leavitt (William Hunt tells also of his brother John, in Paris); the Washburns, three governors, I believe." Clyde du Vernet Hunt, who graduated from
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, and subsequently became a painter and sculptor accepted by the
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, was the son of Leavitt Hunt and his wife, the former Katherine Jarvis. A portrait of Leavitt Hunt painted by his brother William Morris Hunt in 1874 is in the permanent collection of the
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, Brattleboro's main library. Artist William Morris Hunt sketched other members of his brother Leavitt's family as well.
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, another son of Col. Hunt and his wife, became a noted Chicago architect. Leavitt Hunt's wife Katherine, daughter of businessman William Jarvis, died June 6, 1916, at
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, and was interred with her husband at Weathersfield. Leavitt Hunt predeceased his wife, dying at Weathersfield on February 16, 1907. The couple's infant son Morris Hunt, who died in 1871, is interred with his parents.


See also

*
Richard Morris Hunt Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 ...
*
William Morris Hunt William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824September 8, 1879) was an American painter. Born into the political List of Hunt family members of Vermont, Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under hi ...
*
Jarvis Hunt Jarvis Hunt (August 6, 1863 – June 15, 1941) was a Chicago architect who designed a wide array of buildings, including railroad stations, suburban estates, industrial buildings, clubhouses and other structures. Biography Hunt was born in Wea ...
*
Thaddeus Leavitt Thaddeus Leavitt (September 9, 1750 – 1813) was an American merchant who invented an improved upon version of the cotton gin, as well as joining with seven other Connecticut men to purchase most of the three-million-plus acres of the Wester ...
*
Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Representative) Jonathan Hunt (August 12, 1787May 15, 1832) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Vermont and was a member of the prominent Hunt family of Vermont. Early life Born ...
* Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Lieutenant Governor) *
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Notes


References

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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, John Hannavy, pp. 729-731, CRC Press, 2008


Further reading

* ''A Voyage of Discovery: The Nile Journal of Richard Morris Hunt'', 1999, The Octagon Museum, The Museum of the American Architectural Foundation, Washington, D.C. * ''Exploration, Vision & Influence: The Art World of Brattleboro's Hunt Family'', Catalogue, Museum Exhibition, The Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont, June 23–December 31, 2005, Paul R. Baker, Sally Webster, David Hanlon, and Stephen Perkins * See also
William Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot (; 11 February 180017 September 1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th ce ...
, inventor of the
Calotype Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low ...
, sometimes called the Talbotype, the medium used by Hunt and Baker * ''Pilgrims on Paper: The Calotype Journey of Leavitt Hunt and Nathan Flint Baker'', David R. Hanlon, ''History of Photography'', December 2007


External links


Great Pyramid and Sphinx, Gizeh, Egypt
Calotpye print, ca. 1852, Leavitt Hunt, Prints & Photographs Reading Room, The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov.rr
''Agrippa; or, The Evangelists: Historical Point of View,''
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