Focus on this artwork and analyze the Key to historical figures depicted in the painting.
The key to the 47 figures in the painting follows the numbering used by the U.S. government publication "Art of the Capitol" (in the illustration of the key shown in this section) but provides a different (hopefully clearer) description 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 HarrisonSeated 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 MiddletonThree seated figures in the back between the two sets of standing figures:14. Thomas Heyward Jr.
15. Charles Carroll
16. George WaltonSet of three figures standing together in the back:23. Stephen Hopkins (wearing a hat)
24. William Ellery
25. George ClymerTen 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 HopkinsonFive figures standing in front (the Committee of Five):30. John Adams
31. Roger Sherman
32. Robert R. Livingston†
33. Thomas Jefferson
34. Benjamin FranklinFour background figures seated together near the right corner of the room:35. Richard Stockton
36. Francis Lewis
37. John Witherspoon
38. Samuel HuntingtonTwo figures standing in the right corner of the room:39. William Williams
40. Oliver WolcottTwo 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 RutledgeTwo 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.)
George Clymer Oliver Wolcott Benjamin Franklin Committee of Five Thomas Willing George Wythe William Whipple Stephen Hopkins Joseph Hewes Josiah Bartlett George Walton Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Rush William Hooper Philip Livingston Charles Thomson right Robert Treat Paine William Ellery Samuel Adams William Paca William Floyd Lewis Morris Arthur Middleton Elbridge Gerry Edward Rutledge Richard Henry Lee Thomas Heyward Jr. Thomas Lynch Jr. Francis Hopkinson Robert Morris John Dickinson George Clinton James Wilson John Adams Robert R. Livingston Richard Stockton Francis Lewis original document Declaration of Independence George Read Thomas McKean Thomas Jefferson Charles Carroll Abraham Clark Samuel Chase Samuel Huntington John Witherspoon John Hancock William Williams Roger Sherman