of which figure is where in the painting, so numbers are not entirely in order. Key to figures (in each group, listed from left to right): Four men seated on the far left: 1. George Wythe 2. William Whipple 3. Josiah Bartlett 5. Thomas Lynch Jr. Seated at the table on the left: 4. Benjamin Harrison Seated together to the right of Harrison and in front of the standing figures: 6. Richard Henry Lee 7. Samuel Adams 8. George Clinton Five figures standing together on the left: 9. William Paca 10. Samuel Chase 11. Lewis Morris 12. William Floyd 13. Arthur Middleton Three seated figures in the back between the two sets of standing figures: 14. Thomas Heyward Jr. 15. Charles Carroll 16. George Walton Set of three figures standing together in the back: 23. Stephen Hopkins (wearing a hat) 24. William Ellery 25. George Clymer Ten figures seated: 17. Robert Morris (first on the left at the table) 18. Thomas Willing 19. Benjamin Rush 20. Elbridge Gerry 21. Robert Treat Paine 22. Abraham Clark 26. William Hooper 27. Joseph Hewes 28. James Wilson 29. Francis Hopkinson Five figures standing in front (the Committee of Five): 30. John Adams 31. Roger Sherman 32. Robert R. Livingston 33. Thomas Jefferson 34. Benjamin Franklin Four background figures seated together near the right corner of the room: 35. Richard Stockton 36. Francis Lewis 37. John Witherspoon 38. Samuel Huntington Two figures standing in the right corner of the room: 39. William Williams 40. Oliver Wolcott Two foreground figures at the central table: 42. Charles Thomson (standing) 41. John Hancock (seated) Three figures standing at right: 43. George Read 44. John Dickinson 45. Edward Rutledge Two figures seated at far right: 46. Thomas McKean 47. Philip Livingston (Note: - Not a signer of the final Declaration of Independence but depicted in painting. Although Charles Thomson was one of two members listed by name in the earlier Dunlap Broadside as having attested to the Declaration, and many historians believe he had signed the original document that was lost. Clinton was not present at the signing of the Declaration.) Unpainted signers There were 14 signers of the Declaration who did not appear in the painting: Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire) John Hart (New Jersey) John Morton (Pennsylvania) James Smith (Pennsylvania) George Taylor (Pennsylvania) George Ross (Pennsylvania) Caesar Rodney (Delaware) Thomas Stone (Maryland) Thomas Nelson, Jr. (Virginia) Francis