The Quarrel of Cupid and Psyche Amantium Irae. Size of the Picture In. 20½ high & 15½ wide

      Engraved by Capt. Baillie from a most beautiful Cabinet Picture of Nicolo Pousin in the Collection of Wellbore Ellis Agar Esq.r Jan.ry 1. 1778. Etching, 250 x 210mm. 9¾ x 8¼". After Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). Engraved by Captain William Baillie (1723-1810). Baillie retired from the army in 1761 with the rank of Captain and thereafter devoted himself to printmaking and dealing. He specialised in imitating old-master drawings and prints, using a variety of printmaking techniques. Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell, ‘Baillie, William (1723–1810)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography