Daeth i sylw Scene & Word yn ddiweddar bod yr arweinlyfr 111 Places in Cardiff that You Shouldn’t Miss, a gyhoeddwyd yn 2025 gan y wasg Almaenig Emons Verlag GmbH, yn cynnwys gwaith Jonah Jones y Maen Panorama ym Mae Caerdydd. Gwaetha’r modd, cafodd ein pleser gyda’r cyhoeddusrwydd yma ar gyfer y darn ei leddfu gan absenoldeb unrhyw gyfeiriad at enw Jonah. Ysgrifennodd Peter Jones, un o gyfarwyddwyr S&W, at yr awdures, Julia Goodfellow-Smith, fel isod trwy’r wasg ar 13 Ebrill. Hyd yn hyn ni dderbynwyd unrhyw ymateb.
Dear Ms Goodfellow-Smith,
Looking through your book 111 Places in Cardiff that You Shouldn’t Miss, published last year, I was pleased to see that you had included the Panorama Stone, “a compass of connection” in Cardiff Bay. This monument was made by my father, the sculptor Jonah Jones.
Unfortunately you failed to mention his name, even though it is clearly given on the stone. This is an omission the Panorama Stone shares with other public sculptures listed, such as the statues commemorating Aneurin Bevan, Billy the Seal, Fred Keenor, Ivor Novello and the Rugby Codebreakers. I appreciate that the format of the book limits the space available for information about the sights listed, but surely the artists whose skill and labour created these works deserve to be credited?