The portfolio For John Constable was published by the Bernard Jacobson Gallery in 1976 in an edition of 100, to coincide with the Tate’s major Constable exhibition that year. Bernard Jacobson commissioned 19 artists to contribute a print to the portfolio. Several of the selected artists chose to respond directly to individual works (or series of works) by Constable in the V&A collection. The source for Anthony Gross’s engraving cannot be tied to a single piece, but is clearly inspired by Constable’s many views of Salisbury Cathedral. Gross (1905-84) took a view from the water meadows which afforded him the opportunity to fill the foreground with skeins of foliage employing different kinds of mark-making, a favourite compositional device found in a number of his other prints and paintings.