 Sample Issue of the Century Guild Hobby Horse[1] | |
| Editor | Herbert Horne |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo |
| Publisher | Chiswick Press |
| First issue | Apr 1884 |
| Final issue Number | Oct 1894 Issue 28 |
The Hobby Horse was a quarterly Victorian periodical in England published by the Century Guild of Artists. The magazine ran from 1884 to 1894 and spanned a total of seven volumes and 28 issues. It featured various articles not only on arts and design but other subjects including literature and social issues as well. It also featured artwork such as sketches, plates, photographs, engravings, wood cuts, lithographs and reproduced paintings.[2]
The Hobby Horse started publication in 1884 as the first high quality magazine committed solely to the visual arts.[3] "The Century Guild Hobby Horse" was one of the last (and in many ways the ultimate) versions of the literature and art journal, a genre born with the Pre-Raphaelite Germ in 1850. Unlike its successors, The Yellow Book and The Savoy, The Hobby Horse was not solely committed to an elite aestheticism. Its pages were filled with essays arguing for recognition of the vital social role of art and artists."[4] The Century Guild Hobby Horse was a magazine for the most dedicated of art enthusiasts at the time, a magazine that helped cement what purpose art served in the English Victorian community. The contributors looked at art from a scholarly perspective, one that set the blueprints for how art is seen today. The magazine was an idealistic vision to create unity in the arts.[4]
- ^ Meggs & Purvis 2006, p. 170
- ^ Horne & Mackmurdo 1884
- ^ Meggs & Purvis 2006, p. 169
- ^ a b Codell 1983, p. 43