Lucas began work on the engraving of Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows in December 1834. It was the most ambitious of the prints that he made after John Constable’s work. The first proof took six months to produce. Although Constable was initially happy with the print, he soon began to ask for revisions. In September 1835 he wrote to Lucas about ‘Our Rainbow’, worrying that ‘if it is not tender – and elegant – evanescent and lovely … we are both ruined’. On 29 March 1837 Lucas was finally told to ‘Go on as you think proper’. Constable died two days later.