Objects similar to smartphones in the 19th century painting

A 19th-century painting confuses many people with smartphone-like objects on the girl's hands.

The painting in the 1850s by Austrian Ferdinand painter Georg Waldmüller on display at the Neue Pinakothek museum in Munich, Germany, depicts a 19th-century woman walking along a regional trail country with eyes glued to a smartphone-like object in hand, according to Motherboard.

The small rectangular object she held in her hand looked like a smartphone.

The puzzling discoverer in The Expected One picture is retired civil servant Peter Russell.

In the picture, beside the woman leisurely striding on the dirt road, there was a man kneeling and waiting for her to come near, not far from the pink flower in his hand. However, all of the woman's attention focused on the small rectangular object she held in her hand, the image reminded of smartphone addicts on the street today. In fact, the object is not a smartphone but a hymn book .

"What impressed me the most was the big change in the interpretation of the painting, which made the whole scene rise. In about 1850 - 1860, people saw the painting to recognize that the object she was looking at was a Today, everyone will realize the similarity between the scene in the picture with the image of a young girl immersed in the social network on a smartphone, " Russell said.