The Francis Scott Key Monument is a monument to the author of the text of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner", in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
The monument features a gilded statue of Lady Columbia waving a flag on a pedestal of four stone columns, surrounded on two sides by gilded reliefs depicting the Battle of Baltimore.
At the pedestal's base is a bronze statue of Francis Scott Key standing in a rowboat carved from stone.
Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia.
[2] The monument was defaced with the words "Racist Anthem" and splashed with red paint in September 2017.