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A 19th-century painting that appeared to depict a woman using an iPhone hundreds of years before it was invented ignited the imaginations of social media users who said she may have been a time traveler.

The 1860 work — Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's 'The Expected One' — is just the latest in a line of evidence of seemingly modern technology cropping up in historical photos and artworks.

People are seen with what appears to be satellites and laptops - or with 'modern' clothes such as bulky sunglasses that would not look out of place at a Yeezy fashion show and logo-print T-shirts that didn't become popular until the late 20th century.

However, experts told DailyMail.com that this is just a sign of the times. While modern people will see relics of our own time in these devices, those who lived in the time the art was made would easily recognize the maker's intentions.

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For example, what we see as a smartphone or a laptop with our modern eyes would be recognized as a prayer book or jewelry box for those who lived centuries ago.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, explained to DailyMail.com that these 'tourists of the future' would not be using our current technology if they were realtime travelers'. 

'Why would time travelers who come from the future - when time travel is invented - still be using mobile phones?' he explained.

'Wouldn't it make more sense if they were using something a little less visible, and had technology we aren't familiar with?'

Internet users pounced on this image as showing a woman 'using an iPhone' - in a painting dating from the 19th century.

'The Expected One' is an 1860 painting by Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüllerin. It currently resides at the Neue Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany.

It depicts a distracted young girl walking down a prairie path with a young boy waiting to surprise her with a flower at an upcoming turn.

But, the pose and seeming unawareness of what's ahead displayed by the girl seems eerily familiar — it looks like she is looking down at her phone.

Gerald Weinpolter, CEO of the art agency Austrian-paintings told MotherBoard, 'The girl in this Waldmüller painting is not playing with her new iPhone X, but is off to church holding a little prayer book in her hands.'

Retired Glasgow man Peter Russell told MotherBoard, 'The big change is that in 1850 or 1860, every single viewer would have identified the item that the girl is absorbed in as a hymnal or prayer book.'

In 2011, a photo from 1941 showing a man dressed in modern fashion emerged on the internet.

Many referred to the unknown man, wearing sleek sunglasses, with a cardigan over a sweater and an unkempt hairstyle, as the 'time traveling hipster',

He looks like a person someone would see today wandering the streets of Manhattan or Los Angeles and stands out among the crowd of time-appropriately dressed people next to him.

However, the clothes this fashionable fellow was wearing would make sense for this time.

The photograph comes from the Bralorne Pioneer Museum, and captures the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia.

The sunglasses the man was wearing are wrap-around glasses that first hit markets in the US in the 1920s.

His t-shirt also sports the logo of the Montreal Maroons, a professional hockey team that played in the National Hockey League from 1924 to 1938.

While his fashion may have been

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