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Joseph Swain (Oxford 29 February 1820 – 25 February 1909 London) was an English wood-engraver. He is best known from his engravings in ''Punch'' magazine of cartoons by Sir John Tenniel. ==Life== Born in Oxford in 1820, he was second son of Ebenezer Swain by his wife Harriet James; Joseph Swain, pastor of East Street Baptist church, Walworth, was his grandfather. He was educated at private schools, first in Oxford, and then in London, where the family moved in 1829. In 1834 Swain was apprenticed by his father, a printer with the firm of Wertheimer & Co., to the wood-engraver Nathaniel Whittock, and was transferred in 1837 to Thomas Williams, brother of Samuel Williams. In 1843 he was appointed manager of the engraving department of ''Punch'', but in the following year set up in business for himself, retaining the whole of the engraving work for ''Punch'' from 1844 until 1900.〔 He taught William Harcourt Hooper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=120699 )〕 Swain died at Ealing in west London in 1909.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Swain (engraver)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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