The Travelling Companions

The Travelling Companions is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Augustus Leopold Egg.

It is held by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,[1] presented by the John Feeney Charitable Trust in 1956.

[2] It depicts two well-dressed women who are sitting facing each other in a cramped first-class railway carriage, like mirror images.

The woman on the right reads a book; her hair is tied up, she is wearing gloves and a bouquet of flowers lies next to her.

The woman opposite her is sleeping, her hair loose, with bare hands, and a basket of fruit beside her.