150 year old painting appears to show a woman using an iPhone

in woman •  7 years ago 

A painting from the 1860s has a detail seemingly swiped from modern times: a woman hunched and walking with her eyes seemingly glued to a phone.
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As a man crouches in wait to spring a flower on her, she doesn't even look up.

Yup, nothing really seems to have changed beyond the nineteenth century garments.

Picture: Hajotthu / Wikimedia Commons

Glaswegian Peter Russell spotted the 'iPhone' on a visit to the Neue Pinakothek museum in Munich where the painting - The Expected One by Ferdinand George Waldmüller - hangs.paint.gif

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