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English: Detail from Luke Foxe's map of his 1631 Northwest Passage voyage, showing his emblem, a fox.

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, North-West Fox. It evokes the popular medieval legend of Reynard the fox as trickster, perhaps to mock the self-portrait and Latin motto that James 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.

— Adriana Craciun, in: (2016) Writing Arctic Disaster. Authorship and Exploration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 187
Date 1635
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Dimensions height: 5.5 cm (2.1 in); width: 9.8 cm (3.8 in)
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A fox, detail from Luke Foxe's map of his 1631 Northwest Passage voyage

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