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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.