In the later stages of Salisbury Cathedral, Lucas added in details of driving rain and the cathedral architecture. Finally a double rainbow was introduced. Constable however found these developments too much. He wrote in February 1832 ‘I really consider the state of the Salisbury plate is so utterly hopeless that I have come to the determination to abandon it… on looking at the proofs, I find to be in a far very far preferable state than they are at present – nay, were then more than fit for publication’. The ‘Little Salisbury’ was not published until after Constable’s death.