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FRANK NEWBOULD (1887-1950) NEW "RHEINGOLD" EXPRESS. 40x50 inches, 100 1/8x120 3/4 cm. The Dangerfield Printing Co., Ltd., London. Condition B+: overpainting and restorations in margins, image and along vertical and horizontal folds; creases in margins and image. Named after Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, an opus which romanticized the Rhein river, the Rheingold Express was a train which ran between the Hook of Holland and Basel, Switzerland. The train was the most luxurious in German service at the time, giving Pullman and the Compagnie General des Wagons Lits a real run for their money. The Rheingold's luxurious and spacious Middle European Sleeping and Dining Car Company (Mitropa) carriages were designed by famous architects and artists of the era. Wagons-Lits 197, Train p. 25.
