diff --git a/PIL/MpoImagePlugin.py b/PIL/MpoImagePlugin.py
index 6594b74b0..6dda2e513 100644
--- a/PIL/MpoImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/MpoImagePlugin.py
@@ -49,14 +49,21 @@ class MpoImageFile(JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile):
         self.__fp.seek(self.__mpoffsets[0]) # get ready to read first frame
         self.__frame = 0
         self.offset = 0
+        # for now we can only handle reading and individual frame extraction
+        self.readonly = 1
+
+    def load_seek(self, pos):
+        self.__fp.seek(pos)
 
     def seek(self, frame):
         if frame < 0 or frame >= self.__framecount:
             raise EOFError("no more images in MPO file")
         else:
             self.fp = self.__fp
-            self.fp.seek(self.__mpoffsets[frame])
             self.offset = self.__mpoffsets[frame]
+            self.tile = [
+                ("jpeg", (0, 0) + self.size, self.offset, (self.mode, ""))
+            ]
         self.__frame = frame
 
     def tell(self):
diff --git a/Tests/test_file_mpo.py b/Tests/test_file_mpo.py
index a0bcf6f40..b4ab38733 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_mpo.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_mpo.py
@@ -73,6 +73,20 @@ class TestFileMpo(PillowTestCase):
             # and this one, too
             im.seek(0)
             self.assertEqual(im.tell(), 0)
+    
+    def test_image_grab(self):
+        for test_file in test_files:
+            im = Image.open(test_file)
+            self.assertEqual(im.tell(), 0)
+            im0 = im.tobytes()
+            im.seek(1)
+            self.assertEqual(im.tell(), 1)
+            im1 = im.tobytes()
+            im.seek(0)
+            self.assertEqual(im.tell(), 0)
+            im0 = im.tobytes()
+            self.assertEqual(im0, im02)
+            self.assertNotEqual(im0, im1)
             
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':