A monotype of a scene before a sarcophagus and a sculpted monument, with two soldiers clad in ancient armour dragging a corpse back to his mourning family. Although the scene has every appearance of illustrating an episode from ancient history, no literary source has been identified and it is not impossible that Castiglione invented it.

This is the latest of Castiglione’s five monotypes at Windsor, and was created by dabbing ink onto the printing plate with a stiff brush, thus approaching the manner of his oil drawings more closely than the other monotypes. A poor version of the composition in reverse (in oil on paper) is in the British Museum (Ff,3.201), apparently by Giovanni Francesco Castiglione. It is presumably a copy of the original drawing after which the monotype was executed.