Rokeby Venus may have commissioned himself, "The Nude Maja" and "The Clothed Maja". These bear obvious compositional similarities with Velázquez's "Venus", although unlike Velázquez, Goya clearly painted his nude in a calculated attempt to provoke shame and disgust in the relatively unenlightened climate of 18th-century Spain. "Venus" was brought to England in 1813, where it was purchased by John Morritt for £500 (£ in 2019), and on the advice of his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence. Morritt hung it in his house at Rokeby Park, Yorkshire—thus the painting's popular name. In 1906, the painting was acquired for the National Gallery by the newly
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