Joseph Netherclift

{{Short description|English composer and lithographer}}

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Joseph Netherclift (8 September 1792 – 8 April 1863) was an English composer and lithographer. He was awarded a medal in 1829 for his method of lithography.{{cite book|title=The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21410|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=1829|publisher=Henry Colburn and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21410/page/n360 352]}} He was making lithographic facsimiles of historical documents in 1833.{{cite book|author1=Maurice Rickards|author2=Michael Twyman|title=The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator, and Historian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4O3vIHhjoUC&pg=PA139|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2000|publisher=Routledge,cc2000.|isbn=978-0-415-92648-5|page=139}}

Perhaps his most famous work is "We Happy Shepherd Swains".

Netherclift died 8 April 1863 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.