An amusing original pen and ink caricature by an unknown artist. The drawing depicts Rafel Maszkowski (1838-1901), the Polish conductor, violinist, and violist who conducted at various times the Colmar Symphony, Wroclaw Orchestral Society (in succession to Max Bruch), the Hamburg Philharmonic, and briefly in Berlin following the death of von Bülow. He was also active in Koblinsk, where he started a music festival in 1883.

This drawing was in the collection of the Polish soprano Mayra Freund who was raised in Breslau where her parents were music patrons who frequently entertained musicians. Her uncle was the conductor Sir George Henshel. Her son, the baritone Doda Conrad, identified Maszkowski for us and said that they probably had known him.