Meriden Gravure Company

© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaw…
Meriden Gravure Company
© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Meriden Gravure Company

American printer, 1888–1977
BiographyFounded in 1888 by Charles Parker and James F. Allen in Meriden, Connecticut, Meriden Gravure specialized in highly detailed image reproduction and its clients included scientific journals, museums, libraries, and publishers of illustrated books. As technology evolved, the company employed collotype and halftone processes and offset presses. They offered color reproduction by the mid-1940s.
Person TypeInstitution
Harry Fenn
American painter and illustrator, 1837–1911
© Barry Moser. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publ…
American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940
© Alan Magee. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum, not for reproduction or publi…
American painter and printmaker, born 1947
Thomas Nast
American cartoonist, illustrator, 1840–1902
© Jacques Villon / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaw…
French painter and printmaker, 1875–1963
Rose O'Neill
American artist, cartoonist, and writer 1874–1944
Alice Barber Stephens
American painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1858–1932