Pictorial representations Lincoln’s deathbed

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Roger, I added (B&W) a small part at the right – with two more persons – to stretch the “Rubber Room” a bit more; this part belongs to the original, but was not on your image. To accommodate the following 47 persons into it, the room has unrecognizable dimensions:

   

(1) Mary Todd Lincoln; (2) Andrew Johnson; (3) Maj. Henry R. Rathbone; (4) Arnold, P.M.; (5) Postmaster General William Dennison; (6) Sec’y Gideon Welles; (7) Attorney General James Speed; (8) Dr. Hall; (9) Dr. C.H. Liebermann; (10) Sec’y John P. Usher; (11) Sec’y Hugh McCulloch (12) Gov. Richard Oglesby; (13) Speaker Schuyler Colfax; (14) Dr. Robert K. Stone; (15) Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes; (16) Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon; (17) Dr. George B. Todd; (18) Assistent Surgeon Charles A. Leale; (19) Assistent Surgeon Charles S. Taft; (20) Judge William Tod Otto; (21) Brig. Gen. John Franklin Farnsworth; (22) Senator Charles Sumner; (23) Surgeon Charles H. Crane; (24) Gen. John Blair Smith Todd; (25) Robert Todd Lincoln; (26) Rev. Dr. Phineas D. Gurley; (27) Assistent Sec’y Maunsell B. Field; (28) Adj. Gen. Isham N. Haynie; (29) Maj. Benjamin Brown French; (30) Gen. Christopher C. Augur; (31) Col. Thomas McCurdy Vincent; (32) Gen. Henry W. Halleck; (33) Sec’y Edwin M. Stanton; (34) Col. George V. Rutherford; (35) Assistant Sec’y Thomas T. Eckert; (36) Col. Louise H. Pelouse; (37) Maj. John Hay; (38) Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs; (39) Maj. Rockwell; (40) Ex-Gov. Leonard J. Farwell; (41) Judge Carter; (42) Rollins, M.C.; (43) Gen. Gilman Marston (44) Mary Kinney; (45) Constance Kinney; (46) Clara Harris. Abraham Lincoln is the 47th person in this painting.

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In the Chappel painting you can clearly see a print that hung over the bed where Lincoln died. Many printmakers included this print in their depictions of the deathbed scene. And yes, this engraving was actually in the room. I suspect it was an engraving after the painting “The Village Blacksmith”, from John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865) a British artist. Does anyone know something about the other prints that hung over the bed?