diff --git a/Tests/images/string_dimension.tiff b/Tests/images/string_dimension.tiff
deleted file mode 100644
index d0b55830128..00000000000
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diff --git a/Tests/test_file_tiff.py b/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
index bcffecd3536..f644ef8870e 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
@@ -598,6 +598,10 @@ def test_close_on_load_nonexclusive(self, tmp_path):
     # Ignore this UserWarning which triggers for four tags:
     # "Possibly corrupt EXIF data.  Expecting to read 50404352 bytes but..."
     @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:Possibly corrupt EXIF data")
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(
+        not os.path.exists("Tests/images/string_dimension.tiff"),
+        reason="Extra image files not installed",
+    )
     def test_string_dimension(self):
         # Assert that an error is raised if one of the dimensions is a string
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):