Not all images of composers and performers are created with serious intent, though caricatures, with their witty and observant distortion of their subjects' characteristics, can powerfully evoke a sense of what it must have been like to see the original in action. For a larger version, with translations of the captions, click on the image.

A. Göschl, [caricatures of Liszt]
Borsszem Jankó, 6 April 1873, p. 5