石渠寶笈三編(乾清宮),第二冊,頁616 &*故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁154 &*故宮書畫圖錄,第二十五冊,頁151-157&*余省〈活動於西元一七四一─一七五七年間〉,江蘇常熟人,字曾三,號魯亭。蔣廷錫弟子,善花鳥蟲魚,尤善畫蜨。參用西法寫生,賦色妍麗。本冊右幅為乾隆十二〈一七四七〉年,余省奉敕所畫二十四番花信風。左幅則為莊有恭行書分錄乾隆御製咏花詩。《梁元帝纂要》:「小寒至榖雨,凡四月八氣二十四候,每候以花之風信應之」,謂之二十四番花信,世所言始於梅花,終於楝花,楝花盡則立夏。&* Yu Sheng (style name Zengsan; sobriquet Luting) was a native of Changshu, Jiangsu. He was the pupil of Jiang Tingxi and excelled at bird-and-flower and fish-and-insect painting, especially butterflies. He also incorporated Western sketching-from-life methods, imbuing his works with color and beauty. The right leaves in this album dated to 1747 depict 24 flowers of a lunar period. The left leaves include transcriptions by Zhuang Yougong in running script on verses on flowers by the Qianlong Emperor. The Abstracts of Liang Yuandi states, “From Minor Winter to Grain Rain are 4 months of 8 times with 24 periods. It is commonly said that they begin with the plum blossom and end with the chinaberry, which concludes at Beginning Summer.” &*1.張華芝,〈院藏巨幅畫冊 — 墨妙珠林(上)〉,《故宮文物月刊》,第316期(2009年7月),頁56-69。 2.〈清余省牡丹〉,收入國立故宮博物院編輯委員會編,《牡丹名畫特展圖錄》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1987年四月初版),頁47。