A fact from The Gate of Calais appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 June 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that William Hogarth's 1748 painting The Gate of Calais (pictured) features Hogarth himself about to be arrested as a spy for sketching the gate?
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