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The Travelling Companions is an 1862 painting by English artist Augustus Egg. It was created towards the end of Egg's life, at a time when he travelled abroad frequently to seek relief from life-long asthma. The painting depicts two similar-looking and identically dressed women seated opposite each other in a compartment aboard a train travelling along the coastline of Menton, on the French Riviera. The symmetry of the women and the compartment itself is broken in that one woman is sleeping next to a basket of fruit, while the other is reading beside a bouquet of flowers. The painting is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.Painting: Augustus Egg