Tommy Osborne, Itinerant Bookseller of Exeter
Thomas, or Tommy, Osborne was an itinerant bookseller and stationer who achieved fame as one of Exeter’s distinctive street characters of the early nineteenth century. The little that is known of his life is based largely on accounts of his involvement in the Mock Election, held at Ide after the real Exeter parliamentary election of 1812.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 46/1929/2
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Common Name
- Tommy Osborne, Itinerant Bookseller of Exeter
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- EBL Musgrave to Cecil Musgrave 1903; 2
- Period Classification
- Regency (1811-1820)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1812
- Production Person Initials
- George
- Production Person Surname
- Coombes
- Production Year Low
- 1812
- Production Year High
- 1815
