# Thanka (Religious Picture)

- By: Manchu (China)
- Date: 18th century, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; painted details
- Classification: Religious/Ritual Object
- Dimensions: 150.2 × 78.8 cm (59 1/2 × 31 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184959)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/e1fb2de8-bdc4-3f4a-2d2c-1808745cce42/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)