Gordon Bottomley manuscript 1947 "I bought this Etty at Christie's when the Keep was dismantled in 1933 after Ricketts' death along with the three Burne-Jones cartoons" (The Nativity, Nebuchadnezzar, Voyage to Vinland the Good) There is some confusion regarding the date of this design as the Ponsonby commission is not referred to in Burne-Jones's account book. Cormack and Schoenherr proffer an explanation by identifying it as being the Nativity in Burne-Jones's account book (Fitzwilliam) of December 28 1870 and called Holy Family, for which he was paid £15 and mentions that it was "Studied from members of my household". In opposition to this identification the Ponsonby design does not tally with the ages of Burne-Jones's children who were 9 and 4 in 1870. However here is some similarity between the features of Joseph and Burne-Jones himself. In 1874 the church was extensively restored and the east end was extended, and H. C. Marillier, according to Sewter, notes that a differing design, that included a Nativity was offered to the commission for Ponsonby Church but was rejected. It is here suggested that The Nativity, the only new design, was kept and used in the resultant window therefore implying that it would date from 1874. Stylistically the cartoon corroborates the later date. Curiously Sewter dates the window even later as being from 1877!