There's certainly no clue as to whether "the view from" or "the view to" is meant. All we have is whether either of them seems to work (in any one of a thousand ways).

One interesting "view from" involves Sandy Gerrard's work on some stone rows which display sudden "landscape treats" as you walk along them with an accuracy and suddenness that even I find it hard to put down to possible chance. Compared with those, saying a big horse on a hill has some sort of positional significance is very hard work.