Birch's shop front, City of London, (1928). 'Beginning of 19th Century...London facade painting...After a drawing (ca. 1850) by F. Cornman of an old shop near the Royal Exchange'. The Birch Birch & Co confectionery shop on Cornhill, painted in green with three arched and compartmentalised windows. Plate CIX, fig , from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]