This one seems too rare to let it slip between the cracks. This is colonial Chile, South America, 1660-70, with plucked guitar, bowed guitar, and lute (sopranno? or maybe mandolino?) in one picture. Franciscan order Convent, Santiago Chile. AlegorÃa, painted by Taller de Basilio de Santa Cruz.
http://www.thecipher.com/viol_guitar_lute_Chile_1670-80_Franciscan-convent.j pg [catch any trailing characters in the url please] This small viol truly looks "colonial" i.e. antique, as if it came off the boat 120 years earlier. Something about this picture seems to capture or retain the true essence of the original thing -- paired as it is with this guitar, same relative sizes, same playing postures, side-by-side, mates, etc. There was one other picture with a similar vibe, if you didn't catch it earlier. This one is 1604, three guitars: one plucked, two bowed. Fresco, by Vasco Pereira Lusitano, Coronation of the Virgin, Sao Miguel island, Azores, Portugal [Originally from the Church of the Jesuit college of Ponta Delgada]. http://www.thecipher.com/braccio_3guitars_VascoPereiraLusitano_1604_Coronati onVirgin_V2det.jpg [again, catch any trailing characters in the url please] thanks Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
