Jim Dixon - The poster of Lord Frederick Leighton's The Music Lesson you linked to (18 Apr 04 - 04:51 PM ) is a better than average web image, at 84 KB .jpg; but there's really no need to work hard (yeah, I've got a few downloading tricks too). At Lord Frederick Leighton at ARC (page 1 of 10) you'll find The Music Lesson at the seventh picture on this page. Click the picture for the "normal large" view, at 423 KB, or the Hi Res bar at the bottom of the thumbnail for the 2,023 KB "big picture." No tricks, just takes a little time. The kid has a cute "freckle" on the bridge of her nose that you likely won't see except in the "hi-res."

It is a strange instrument: 6 strings, so it's a guitar(?) – but the frets appear to be equally spaced, or very nearly so, so it couldn't play anything but tonic, 4th, 5th, maybe 7th, so it must be a "country guitar." (am I kidding???). Maybe Lord Fred just wasn't a musician.

John