Rokeby Venus connoisseurs steal a glance without drawing the said posterior into the company". The "Rokeby Venus" was long held to be one of Velázquez's final works. In 1951, it was found recorded in an inventory of 1 June 1651 from the collection of Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio, a close associate of Philip IV of Spain. Haro was the great-nephew of Velázquez's first patron, the Count-Duke of Olivares, and a notorious libertine. According to the art historian Dawson Carr, Haro "loved paintings almost as much as he loved women", and "even his panegyrists lamented his excessive taste for
Rokeby (poem) song by William Hawes, an opera called "Rokeby Castle" by William Reeve, and a projected opera by Glinka from which only one song survives. The actor-manager William Macready wrote, produced and starred in a stage version of "Rokeby" in 1814. Another adaptation by George John Bennett, a five-act play called "Retribution, or Love's Trials", was produced at Sadler's Wells in 1850. The artist J. M. W. Turner produced a watercolour of the river Greta at Rokeby in 1822, which had been commissioned from him as an illustration to Scott's poem. The unincorporated area of Rokeby, Nebraska, is believed to be