Detail from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Foxe" class="extiw" title="w:Luke Foxe">Luke Foxe</a>'s <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luke_Foxe_voyage_account_(North-West_Fox,_1635)_-_2_foldout_map_-1_full_view.png" title="File:Luke Foxe voyage account (North-West Fox, 1635) - 2 foldout map -1 full view.png">map of his 1631 Northwest Passage voyage</a>, showing his emblem, a fox.
<blockquote class="templatequote language"><p>The cartouche of Foxe's map shows a leaping fox with a goose slung over its back, a playful gesture chiming with the book's title, <i>North-West Fox</i>. It evokes the popular medieval legend of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynard_the_Fox" class="extiw" title="w:Reynard the Fox">Reynard the fox</a> as trickster, perhaps to mock the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Strange_and_Dangerous_Voyage_(Thomas_James,_1633)_-_3_foldout_map_The_Platt_of_Sayling_-_2_The_True_Portraict.png" title="File:The Strange and Dangerous Voyage (Thomas James, 1633) - 3 foldout map The Platt of Sayling - 2 The True Portraict.png">self-portrait</a> and Latin motto that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_James_(sea_captain)" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas James (sea captain)">James</a> chose for his map cartouche. The emblem of the leaping fox with goose or cock on its back circulated widely in Renaissance cathedral art, including throughout Foxe's Yorkshire, so that Reynard's outsmarting of the foolish goose or "pompous cock" appears a visual pun reinforcing Foxe's deflation of James's pomp. The unschooled Foxe showed a real flair for whimsical toponyms as well as visual jests.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— Adriana Craciun, in: <cite><cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">(2016) <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=0mSSCwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA187#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">Writing Arctic Disaster. Authorship and Exploration</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cambridge" class="extiw" title="w:en:Cambridge"><span title="city in Cambridgeshire, England">Cambridge</span></a>:  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>, p. 187  <small></small></cite></cite></div>
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