In the year 1745, _Launcelot Burton_ was appointed naval officer at _Deal. Hogarth_ had seen him by accident; and on a piece of paper, previously impressed by a plain copper-plate, drew his figure with a pen, in imitation of a coarse etching. He was represented on a lean _Canterbury_ hack, with a bottle sticking out of his pocket; and underneath was an inscription, intimating that he was going down to take possession of his place. This was inclosed to him in a letter; and some of his friends, who were in the secret, protested the drawing to be a print which they had seen exposed to sale at the shops in _London_; a circumstance that put him in a violent passion, during which he wrote an abusive letter to _Hogarth_, whose name was subscribed to the work. But, after poor _Burton's_ tormentors had kept him in suspence throughout an uneasy three weeks, they proved to him that it was no engraving, but a sketch with a pen and ink. He then became so perfectly reconciled to his resemblance, that he shewed it with exultation to Admiral _Vernon_, and all the rest of his friends. In 1753, _Hogarth_ returning with Dr. _Morell_ from a visit to Mr. _Rich_ at _Cowley_, stopped his chariot, and got out, being struck by a large drawing (with a coal) on the wall of an alehouse. He immediately made a sketch of it with triumph; it was a St. _George and the Dragon_, all in strait lines. _Hogarth_ made one essay in sculpture. He wanted a sign to distinguish his house in _Leicester-fields_; and thinking none more proper than the _Golden Head_, he, out of a mass of cork made up of several thicknesses compacted together, carved a bust of _Vandyck_, which he gilt and placed over his door. It is long since decayed, and was succeeded by a head in plaster, which has also perished; and is supplied by a head of Sir _Isaac Newton. Hogarth_ modelled another resemblance of _Vandyck_ in clay; which is likewise destroyed.