William Barnard - Bute Dock, Cardiff - 1844. An engraving by William Barnard after G. W. Butland. The booklet published by the Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff and Swansea in 1988 entitled 'Artist's Views of Glamorgan : The Nineteenth Century' states that 'This was the first of the docks at Cardiff, opened in 1838 to export coal and iron'. [446]