Alexander Wilson - 'Penarth Head'. - Alexander Wilson was born 1796, died 1874, and this oil painting dating from 1833 is hung in the Cardiff City Hall. The tower of the old St. Augustine's Church may be seen on the headland (rebuilt 1865) and the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm are distant. A horse hauls trucks full of coal along a track to be loaded into the hold of the ship moored at the quayside. [440]

'Pier Head, Cardiff, 1820 - from a painting by Wilson' - states the Cardiff Library print. - 'First Coal Staith (Powell's) in the River Taff at the Ban, wrongly described in the print as Pier Head.' [049]