This image illustrates the coming of the new year. The older person, dressed in black and stretched out face down on the ground, represents the old year in all its sorrow and regret. The child, held up high with a halo around his head, personifies the optimism of the incoming new year. The figure at the center of the composition, with horns, wings and a whip in his hand, depicts the publisher of this journal -- the devil himself.

Image: The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia