Francis Scott Key Monument  The Francis Scott Key Monument is an outdoor sculpture to Francis Scott Key in Baltimore, Maryland. Charles Marburg gave $25,000 to his brother Theodore Marburg to hire a sculptor to create a monument to Francis Scott Key. The French sculptor Antonin Mercié was selected. Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia. The sculpture was dedicated on Eutaw Place in 1911. The sculpture was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999. In September 2017, the monument was vandalized and graffitied with the words "racist anthem" spray painted on the base.