Rokeby Venus Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, along with 25 other paintings at least claimed to be by Velázquez; it was here that it became known as the "Rokeby Venus". It does not appear to have been copied by other artists, engraved or otherwise reproduced, until this period. In 1890 it was exhibited in the Royal Academy in London, and in 1905 at Messrs. Agnews, the dealers who had bought it from Morritt. From 1906 it was highly visible in the National Gallery and became well-known globally through reproductions. The general influence of the painting was therefore long delayed, although individual artists would
Rokeby Bypass of the Police Academy. The Clarence city council has now zoned Land for the future bypass in accordance with recommendations of the Clarence Plains Outline Development Plan (CPODP) of 2008. A key recommendation of the CPODP is that the future upgrading of Rokeby Main Road from Oceana Drive to the Clarence Plains Rivulet is to be based on providing four lanes of traffic using the existing road alignment and providing a bypass of the Rokeby commercial / industrial area in the long term. When the state government adopted the CPODP the Minister at that time Graham Sturges gave a commitment