Irish match-seller and street entertainer Thomas McConwick, the dancing ballad-singer on the west side of London. In hat with sprig of flowers, great coat, wide trousers, with shillelagh. Singing the Irish song "Sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green." Copperplate engraving drawn from life and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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