Social media users found an iPhone-like device in a painting dated 1937. Independent. It is held in their hands by a man as if he were going to answer the call.
The painting “Mr. Pynchon and the Springfield Settlement” was made by Italian painter Umberto Romano. It depicts the colonizer and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, William Pynchon and Indians.
The attention of social media users caught the attention of one of the captured Indians holding a device similar to the modern iPhone.
“It looks like they’re browsing through the linked guy’s browser history,” commenters joked.
Perhaps the smartphone-like device in Romano’s painting could be a hand mirror or an ax, a popular trade item.
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