Title page of a ballad featuring a bust-length portrait of Richard Howe, Earl Howe (1726–1799) in admiral’s undress uniform, 1787–1795, with added epaulettes. Lettered beneath the image: ‘Admiral Lord Howe. “While We Shed a Tear of Feeling,” A Ballad written especially for The Fancy Bazaar, for the benefit of the Floating Hospital and respectfully dedicated to Lady Howe. F. W. N. Bayley. Composed by J. Addison. / Ent. Sta. Hall. / Price 2s. / London. Goulding & D’Almaine 20 Soho Square. / Printed by Engelmann & Co.’ This print was the title page for a nineteenth-century ballad with lyrics by F. W. N. Bayley and music by J. Addison. The ballad was published to raise funds for the ‘Floating Hospital’ on the Thames, which was based in the ‘Dreadnought’, an ex-warship moored at Greenwich until the Hospital came ashore into what is now the Dreadnought Building of Greenwich University in 1870. The lyrics of the ballad referred to Admiral Richard Howe’s victory at the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, hence the title page was illustrated with Howe’s portrait. The portrait is after John Singleton Copley’s bust-length oil painting of around 1790, a version of which is now in the National Maritime Museum (see BHC2790). [Updated, 1/21]