Biography:

Anthony Imbert began a lithography company on Murray Street in New York City in 1825, and gained renown for producing the plates for Memoir, a commemorative book by Cadwallader D. Colden celebrating the completion of the Erie Canal. The 35 plates in Memoir showed a variety of new lithographic techniques, and the book’s text proclaimed Imbert’s relatively new lithography business “the most prominent in New York,” which was very likely an exaggeration. Imbert became well known as a lithographer of landscapes, and flourished as the Hudson River School style and interest in New York scenes grew.
Imbert began lithographing music scores in 1827, and caricatures and satirical images in 1828; between 1828 and his death in 1834 he issued 19 cartoons, more than double that of any other publisher in the country. He is credited with producing the first lithographed political cartoon in America, A New Map of the United States with the Additional Territories on an Improved Plan (1829).