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Mr. W. S. Woodin's Entertainment, "The Olio of Oddities" - scene, "The Lakes", 1856. Creator: Smyth.

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Mr. W. S. Woodin's Entertainment, "The Olio of Oddities" - scene, "The Lakes", 1856. Self-styled 'polygraphist', or impressionist, who portrayed, '..., night after night, some fifty distinct characters, embodied by himself with wonderful rapidity of contrast...The building in King William-street, Strand. [London], which he has fitted up in the most costly and elegant fashion, and at which, under his own designation of "The Polygraphic Hall", was only [previously] known...by a series of failures...he has for nearly a twelvemonth been giving his last production, "The Olio of Oddities"'...He is shown here '...in his own person - the most difficult achievement for the artist, as he is somebody else every three minutes - and at the same time indicates one of those beautiful views which pass before the eye of the spectator in Mr. Woodin's admirably painted panorama of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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Photo12/Heritage Images

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HRM23A57_039

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27,5Mo (2,8Mo) / 33,0cm x 20,9cm / 3893 x 2470 (300dpi)

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scenic unusual people male job man men playhouse entertainment guy theatre occupation British color stage odd performance performer performing show entertainer scenery century vista Britain profession newspapers press concept impressions stage set mimicry B&W impressionist mimicking engraved engraving Colour mimic 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black on stage nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper Smyth 19th-century polygraphist