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Francis Scott King

Nationality:

american

Gender:

Male

Birth Date:

1850

Active in Ledgewiood. Painter, illustrator, wood engraver/. Founder of American society of wood engravers.

"'Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn./ It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.'", twenty-second plate in the book The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Gustave Doré, with comment by Edmund C. Stedma

"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.", tenth plate in the book The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Gustave Doré, with comment by Edmund C. Stedman (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884)