Joseph Swain (engraver)

He was educated at private schools, first in Oxford, and then in London, where the family moved in 1829.

[1] Nearly all the illustrations in the Cornhill Magazine were engraved by Swain, and he also worked largely for other periodicals such as Once a Week, Good Words, The Argosy, and for the publications of the Religious Tract Society and the Baptist Missionary Society.

He engraving extensively after Fred Walker, John Everett Millais, Frederick Sandys, Richard Doyle, Richard Ansdell, Fred Barnard, and other major illustrators, from 1860 onwards.

[1] A series of articles on Fred Walker, Charles Henry Bennett, George John Pinwell, and Fritz Eltze, which Swain wrote for Good Words (1888–89), were incorporated in Toilers in Art, edited by Henry C. Ewart (1891).

They had three daughters and a son, Joseph Blomeley Swain, who carried on the printing and engraving establishment.

The Dogs of War , political cartoon by John Tenniel engraved by Joseph Swain, 17 June 1876, for Punch magazine, just at the outbreak of the Serbo-Turkish War
John Bull (Great Britain) is dwarfed by a gigantic inflated American "Alabama Claim" cartoon by Joseph Swain in Punch--or the London Charivari 22 Jan 1872.
Valkyrie and Raven , 1862 wood-engraving by Joseph Swain after Frederick Sandys , illustration to the Hrafnsmál