Two views of the sarcophagus at Capella Corsini in San Giovanni in Laterano, 18th century

The sarcophagus depicted in this drawing is better known as the “Tomb of Agrippa", an ancient Roman porphyry sarcophagus discovered in the 15th century. After its discovery, the sarcophagus was placed first in the Piazza della Rotunda, and then under the portico, of the Pantheon in Rome. In the 1730s it was taken to San Giovanni in Laterano where it was installed in the Corsini Chapel, serving as a monument for Pope Clement XII.

The sarcophagus was recorded in Desgodetz's Les Edifices antiques de Rome dessinés et mesurés tres exactement par Antoine Desgodetz (1682) and in Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s first work, Prima parte di Architettura e Prospettive (1743).